| 词汇 | father of angling |
| 词源 | Father of Angling. English author Izaak Walton (1593–1683) earned this title with his book on the joys of fishing, The Com- pleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation (1653). The most quoted advice in his much-quoted work: “Thus use your frog . . . Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills . . . and in so doing use him as though you loved him.” |
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