英语词汇mouth-watering的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	mouth-watering
词源	mouth-watering. Cavemen 100,000 years ago surely felt their mouths watering over the smell and sight of meat roasting in their fires, but this expression somehow wasn’t recorded un- til 1555 in English. Soon after, this term for appetizing came to be used figuratively as well as literally.
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