| 词汇 | gold |
| 词源 | gold. Gold is one of the four oldest words in English, deriving from the Indo-European substrate word gol (the other three are apple, from apal; bad, bad; and tin, tin). Hundreds of expres- sions, some of them covered in these pages, are based on gold, from all that glitters is not gold and good as gold to heart of gold and gold digger. |
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