英语词汇widow maker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	widow maker
词源	widow maker. Rudyard Kipling is the first writer to record widow maker as a synonym for the sea, in Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906): “What is a woman that you forsake her . . . To go with the old grey Widow-maker?” Widow maker was used by Shake- speare for a killer in general, however, and it seems likely that the term was used before Kipling to describe the great elemen- tary force that made widows of so many sailors’ wives. Widow maker can also describe trees or limbs that fall on people.
随便看	don’t look back something might be gaining on you don’t look now don’t make two bites of a cherry don’t play games with me don’t poke one-s nose into it don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today don’t say it if you can grunt it don’t sell the steak sell the sizzle don’t stick your neck out don’t take any wooden nickels don’t that take the rag off the bush don’t want to pick up that snake now don’t wash your dirty linen in public don’t write it if you can say it doodlebug doo-doo doofus doolally dooley doolittle do’d it doorbuster doornail doo-wop dope dopey

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