| 词汇 | windfall |
| 词源 | windfall. Unexpected good fortune has been called a windfall since the early 16th century. The expression has its origins in the medieval English law that forbade commoners from cut- ting down trees but allowed them to keep any trees or branches that the wind blew down. |
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