| 词汇 | bachelor |
| 词源 | bachelor. It wasn’t until relatively recent times that the word bachelor was used exclusively for unmarried males. In the past the word was applied without distinction of sex, Ben Jon- son using it to mean an unmarried woman in his play The Magnetic Lady (1632). Bachelor derives ultimately from the medieval Latin baccalaris, which became the Old French bacheler. |
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