英语词汇shamrock的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shamrock
词源	shamrock. A word representing the Irish from the Irish lan- guage. Shamrock simply means “little clover,” deriving from the Irish seamrog, the diminutive of seamar, “clover.” The three- leaved plant was used by St. Patrick to illustrate the trinity, which is why to drown the shamrock came to mean a drinking celebration on St. Patrick’s Day.
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