英语词汇legend in one-s lifetime的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	legend in one-s lifetime
词源	legend in one’s lifetime. It is possible that Florence Nightin- gale may be the first person so described, in Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918): “She was a legend in her lifetime, and she knew it . . .” In the same book Strachey described the great nurse as a living legend, the first recorded use of that cli- ché. A variation is a legend in her own time and a cynical varia- tion on that is the modern a legend in her own mind. See alsolady with the lamp.
随便看	wet blanket wet hen we the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union wet one wet one-s beak wet one-s whistle wet ship wetting a commission wet your whistle we who are about to die salute you we wuz robbed whalemen-s chapel whaling wham bam thank-ye-ma’am what am i chopped liver what a revoltin’ development this is what are you a man or a mouse what a way to run a railroad what can’t be cured must be endured what cato did and addison approved cannot be wrong whatchamacallit whatcheer what doesn’t kill me him makes me him stronger what do you know about that what every schoolboy knows

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