英语词汇lifeguard的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lifeguard
词源	lifeguard. According to the OED, American author and edi- tor William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the first to record this word in 1896. However the Random House Dictionary of the English Language traces the word to 1640–50.
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