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.
随便看	i swan i swear i’ll kwill you it italian italian words in english italic type itch itching ears itchy trigger finger it didn’t jell it doesn’t go on all fours i throw a shoe at you it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it might have been it must have been one of the nuts it rains on the just and unjust alike i trust it-s nothing trivial its it-s a great life if you don’t weaken it-s all in a day-s work it-s all over but the shouting it-s all worth it including the final crash it-s always the best swimmers that drown it-s a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but i think you’ll be amused by its presumptions it-s a new ball game

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