| 词汇 | fad |
| 词源 | fad. A persistent old story holds that fad, a temporary fash- ion, derives from the initials of for a day, but there is no proof of this. Most authorities believe that the word, first recorded in 1834, comes from the English dialect fad, “to busy oneself with trifles,” which may be a contraction of the faddle in fiddle fad- dle, “trifling talk or trivial matters”—but there is no real proof of this theory either. |
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