英语词汇small fry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	small fry
词源	small fry. In her epochal Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe introduced small fry (“smaller fry”) to describe chil- dren, but fry had been used in this sense as early as 1697. Both expressions refer to the fry, “or young, of salmon, her- ring and other fish.” The word derives from the Norse frae “seed,” meaning the berry or seedlike masses of eggs these fish produce.
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