英语词汇embarrassment of riches的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	embarrassment of riches
词源	embarrassment of riches. A great amount of wealth, or any- thing, almost too much to have and certainly too much to con- veniently use. The expression apparently came into English from the French embarras de richesse, meaning the same, which seems to have originated as the title of a 1753 play by the Abbé d’Allainvail. Embarras de richesse is also much used in English.
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