英语词汇donate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	donate
词源	donate. The verb donate is a back formation from the noun donation. An Americanism recorded as early as 1795, it is firm- ly established today, but at first met with vociferous opposition, having been placed on William Cullen Bryant’s Index Expurga- torius and denounced as “pretentious and magniloquent vul- garism” by a British writer as late as 1935.
随便看	the philippines the pits the plot thickens the popgun plot the powers that be the queen the quip modest the race is not to the swift the rat the cat and lovell the dog therblig there ain’t no horse that can’t be rode / there ain’t no man that can’t be throwed there are no atheists in foxholes there but for the grace of god goes god there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub

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