英语词汇rubik-s cube的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	rubik-s cube
词源	Rubik’s Cube. According to a New York Times article (No- vember 16, 2003) by author David Hayes, “In 1974, a Hungarian designer named Ernö Rubik (b. 1944) created a multicolored, six-sided [plastic] cube as a three-dimensional model to dem- onstrate geometric principles. Despite its complexity—there is one correct alignment and 43 quintillion potential wrong ones—by 1980 Rubik’s Cube had developed a cult following. An estimated quarter of a billion cubes were sold between 1980 and 1985.”
随便看	put in a good word for someone put in one-s two cents’ worth put it all in the first paragraph put lay one-s finger upon put nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear put one-s best foot forward put one-s foot in one-s mouth put one-s oar in another-s boat put on nothing but the radio put on the buskin put on the dog put on the gloves put on the spot putt put that in your pipe and smoke it put the cart before the horse put the john d to her put the kibosh on put the pedal to the metal put the toothpaste back in the tube put through the mill put to the pale put up on a pedestal put up your dukes put your foot in it

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