英语词汇rolls-royce的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	rolls-royce
词源	Rolls-Royce. Regarded by many for many years as the best car in the world, the Rolls-Royce is named for Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce, who first built it in 1904. Royce was the mechanical genius, a manufacturer of dynamos and electric cranes before Rolls, an auto dealer, heard of a new model auto Royce had built and sought him out.
随便看	you can’t have your cake and eat it too you can’t judge a book by its cover you can’t keep a squirrel on the ground you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow-s ear you can’t win ’em all you could have heard a pin drop you couldn’t detect my interest with a high-powered telescope you don’t have money give yourself volunteer you don’t want to go there you furnish the pictures and i’ll furnish the war you gotta believe you have money give money you have the words but you don’t have the music you know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch you might as well appeal against the thunderstorm you never miss the water till the well runs dry youngberry young folk of the pear garden young in at heart young turk young whippersnapper you pays your money and you take your choice your all-s your epitaph

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