英语词汇word for word的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	word for word
词源	word for word. As one would expect, this is a very old ex- pression for “exactly” or “precisely,” Chaucer first recording it in about 1385: “I could folwe word for word Virgile.”
随便看	snood snookers snoop snopesism snorkel snow snowbirds snows of yesteryear snuffing the candle snuff out snug snug as a bug in a rug soapberry soap opera soapstone son-of-a-bitch soapy sam sober as a judge soccer social butterfly sociology sock sockdollager sock saunders so cold the wolves ate the sheep just for the wool socratic irony

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。