词汇 | spark |
词源 | spark. Americans were “sparking” at least as far back as 1787, when the expression was first recorded. To spark, an old- fashioned term meaning “to make love, to court,” especially by a young woman’s sweetheart or “feller,” may be of Scandinavian origin. |
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