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词汇 lovebird
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lovebird. The West African parrot Agapornis pullarius was apparently the first bird to be called the lovebird because of the remarkable affection it shows for its mate. This usage is record- ed in the late 1500s, over three centuries passing before love- birds is recorded as applying to humans (as an Americanism in the 1930s). But the phrase like a pair of lovebirds was common before this and one doubts that human lovebirds weren’t so called much earlier.
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