| 词汇 | shake like an aspen leaf |
| 词源 | shake like an aspen leaf. As the Canterbury Tales (1386) at- test, Chaucer knew this expression and it was probably used long before him, ever since people first noticed that the delicate aspen leaf trembles in the slightest wind. |
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