| 词汇 | dynamite |
| 词源 | dynamite. Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel invented this ex- plosive and the word for it. Nobel constructed dynamite from the Greek dunamis, “power,” and the Swedish suffix it. His dy- namit almost immediately came into English as dynamite. See nobel prize. |
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