| 词汇 | brand-new |
| 词源 | brand-new. Brand-new has nothing to do with the brand name of a product. It is rather associated with the word brand that is cognate with “fire,” as in firebrand. The product would thus be fresh from the anvil, or as Shakespeare put it in Twelfth Night, “fire-new.” |
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