| 词汇 | old blighty |
| 词源 | Old Blighty. Old Blighty became popular as an endearing name for England during World War I, but it can be traced to Englishmen in India some years before this, blighty itself deriv- ing from the Hindustani bilati, “a distant country.” |
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