英语词汇canterbury bells的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	canterbury bells
词源	Canterbury bells. Pilgrims to Canterbury in Chaucer’s time thought that the bellflowers (Campanula medium) they saw along the road resembled the little bells on their horses and called the flowers Canterbury bells. Campanula itself is the Lat- in word for “bell.”
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