英语词汇spirit away的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	spirit away
词源	spirit away. Originally, in 17th-century England, this expres- sion referred to the kidnapping of boys to work on the West In- dian plantations. The children were taken as quickly and quietly as possible, to give people the impression that they had been “supernaturally removed.”
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