词汇 | aubepine |
词源 | Aubepine. As a preface to his famous story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” Nathaniel Hawthorne originally wrote a paragraph claiming that the tale was written by a Frenchman named Aubepine. Some readers immediately recognized that Aubepine meant “hawthorn” in French and that Hawthorne was actually discussing his own work. |
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