| 词汇 | sparrow |
| 词源 | sparrow. No bird is better known everywhere in Great Britain than the little sparrow, whose name, in the form of the Old En- glish spearwa, is first recorded in the seventh century. The small brownish gray bird of the family Fringillidae, also native to the U.S., gives us the term “sparrow-legged,” for a person with a big belly and skinny legs. The bird was even used in sparrow-pie, a dish that supposedly made the eater sharp-witted. |
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