英语词汇mervousness的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mervousness
词源	mervousness. A short-lived political word and only an amus- ing historical footnote today, mervousness is a blend of Merv and nervousness. The duke of Argyll coined it in the early 1880s when the British government worried nervously about Russia having designs upon the area of Merv in Turkestan. In fact, the British mervousness was warranted, for the Russians grabbed Merv in late 1883.
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