英语词汇a collision at sea can ruin your entire day的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	a collision at sea can ruin your entire day
词源	a collision at sea can ruin your entire day. Thucydides, Greek statesman, sailor, and adventurer of the fourth century b.c., was a cool customer, judging by this remark he made after his boat was rammed by another; it has since been repeated by other blasé boatmen. During the cold war era, a popular bumper sticker read: “A nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.”
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