英语词汇canfield的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	canfield
词源	canfield. Lonely people playing solitaire can at least have the company of Richard C. Canfield (1855–1941), for this Ameri- can gambler invented the world’s most popular game of soli- taire one summer toward the end of the 19th century during breaks from the gaming tables at the fashionable resort of Sara- toga Springs, New York. Canfield based his new game, named canfield after himself, on the solitaire game called klondike, which gold miners in Alaska had invented a few decades before.
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