| 词汇 | might makes right |
| 词源 | might makes right. A saying from the early 1400s that is sometimes given as might is right. “But so goes the world. Might makes right,” John Wilkes Booth wrote to his mother on the same day he assassinated President Lincoln. Booth did not know that the president had said in his Cooper Union address (February 27, 1860): “Let us have faith that right makes might . . .” |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。