英语词汇build a better mousetrap的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	build a better mousetrap
词源	build a better mousetrap. Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited with “If you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door,” mainly because a book entitled Bor- rowings by Sarah S. B. Yule and Mary Keene, published in 1889, reported that he had said it in a speech. But many scholars be- lieve that Emerson was too wise to believe that the world would always seek out the best, and nothing concerning a mousetrap can be found in any of Emerson’s published writings.
随便看	give him an inch and he’ll take a mile give him enough rope to hang himself give him jesse give it up give me liberty or give me death give my regards to broadway given name give short shrift to someone give someone a cold deck give someone the bird give someone the gate bare as a milkpan when the cat-s been round barebones-s parliament barefaced liar barefoot barge in bark barkis is willin’ bark up the wrong tree barlow knife barmecide-s feast bar mitzvah barn barnacle barnburner

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