| 词汇 | spider |
| 词源 | Spider. Robert Frost described someone with the nickname Spider in his poem “The Code” (1914): “He was one of the kind sports call a spider, / All wiry arms and legs that spread out wary / From a humped body nigh as big’s a biscuit. . . .” I re member a runner nicknamed Spider who leaped from the stands into a mile race and proceeded to win the race—wearing a raincoat and wing-tip shoes. |
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