英语词汇smile的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	smile
词源	smile. The Middle English word smilen is the direct ancestor of smile, but nobody knows where smilen came from—probably from a Scandinavian language. Smiles is said to be the longest word in English, according to an old riddle: “There’s a mile be- tween the first and the last letter.”
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