英语词汇english sparrow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	english sparrow
词源	English sparrow. People have compared the destructive En- glish sparrow to the rat because of the damage it does in eating tree buds and grain. The bird is so named because eight pairs of them were brought from England to Brooklyn in 1850 and freed in an attempt to rid the area of a caterpillar pest called the inchworm. The birds thrived, ultimately proved more of a lia- bility than an asset, and are now ubiquitous pests throughout the country.
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