| 词汇 | naked bear |
| 词源 | naked bear. Hush or the naked bear will get you! was an ex- pression mothers stilled their crying children with a century ago. First recorded in 1818, the words refer to an American In- dian legend of “a very ferocious kind of bear, which they say once existed, but was totally destroyed by their ancestors.” Longfellow mentions the naked bear in one of his poems. |
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