| 词汇 | guinea pig |
| 词源 | guinea pig. The South American rodent isn’t a pig and doesn’t hail from Guinea in West Africa. Native to Brazil, the guinea pig takes its first name from the fact that it was first brought to Europe on the Guinea-men slave ships that sailed from Guinea to South America to deliver their human cargo and to fill their holds with whatever cargo was available for the return trip to Europe. How the creature came to be called a pig is anybody’s guess. |
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