| 词汇 | balls |
| 词源 | balls. “You’ve got balls, young man,” the impressed Black Hand boss tells a young Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972). Balls in this sense means courage, guts, audaciousness, daring. This may be the earliest printed use of the term, which is a U.S. invention, though no one else notes the source. |
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