英语词汇solitary as an oyster的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

solitary as an oyster. No single Faulknerian sentence could contain all the miseries of the oyster’s life, from the Crepidula fornicata, or slipper limpet, that multiplies as fast as its Latin name suggests and suffocates whole beds of oysters, to the star- fish that grotesquely stick their whole stomachs out of their mouths and into open oyster shells to digest some soft meat. No wonder the oyster tries to keep to itself. No wonder we have the expression as solitary as an oyster, first recorded by Dickens in A Christmas Carol.

词汇	solitary as an oyster
词源	solitary as an oyster. No single Faulknerian sentence could contain all the miseries of the oyster’s life, from the Crepidula fornicata, or slipper limpet, that multiplies as fast as its Latin name suggests and suffocates whole beds of oysters, to the star- fish that grotesquely stick their whole stomachs out of their mouths and into open oyster shells to digest some soft meat. No wonder the oyster tries to keep to itself. No wonder we have the expression as solitary as an oyster, first recorded by Dickens in A Christmas Carol.
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