词汇 | lonely |
词源 | lonely. Shakespeare coined lonely, or first recorded it, from lone plus ly, in Coriolanus (1608): “I go alone Like to a lonely Dragon . . .” The word loneliness had been invented before this and may also have suggested lonely to him. |
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