英语词汇silent league的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	silent league
词源	Silent League. A society organized in 1903 (in the U.S. Navy of all places), of men who “solemnly agree to discourage Pro- fanity and Obscenity everywhere so long as they live,” in the words of its founder, Chaplain Carroll Q. Wright. As Gary Jen- nings notes in his delightful Personalities of Language (1965): “I know of no sailor today who ever heard of the Silent League, but I know several who are walking evidence that Profanity and Obscenity have outlived it.”
随便看	there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos the rock thersitical the same dog bit me thesaurus the scene opens the schilder technique the screw plot the second city of the world

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