英语词汇anglo-saxon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	anglo-saxon
词源	Anglo-Saxon. Also called Old English, Anglo-Saxon is the En- glish language from the mid-fifth to the 12th century. In her li- bretto for Deems Taylor’s opera The King’s Henchman (1927), which is set in the palace of King Edgar in 10th-century En- gland, American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay tried to use no word that came into English after the Norman Conquest (1066). Her “Anglo-Saxon” libretto began “Wild as the white waves / Rushing and roaring . . .” See burn candle at both ends.
随便看	betel nut bet one-s bottom dollar better a hash at home than a roast with strangers better half better late than never better mousetrap better to give than to receive betty between a rock and a hard place between grass and hay between scylla and charybdis between the cup and the lip there-s many a slip between the devil and the deep blue sea between the lines between wind and water between you me and the bedpost between you me and the lamppost beulah land bevinism beware of and eschew pompous prolixity beware of dog beware of greeks bearing gifts beware the ides of march beyond the pale be your age

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