| 词汇 | haggard |
| 词源 | haggard. Here is a word that comes from the 3,000-year-old sport of falconry. A haggard bird is one trapped as an adult and very difficult to train, unlike a bird captured when a nestling. By the 14th century the word came to mean a wild, intractable person. Then it took on the meaning of a terrified, anxious, or exhausted, expression on a human face. This finally resulted in the meaning of haggard we use today, gaunt, drawn, wasted, or exhausted. |
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