英语词汇a tangled web的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	a tangled web
词源	a tangled web. Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) first used the proverbial expression “O what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practice to deceive.” The words are from Scott’s roman- tic poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1797). See also spitting image of.
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