英语词汇the bird of night的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the bird of night
词源	the bird of night. Another name for the owl. Shakespeare called it so in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (1599): “And yester- day the bird of night did sit, Even at noon-day, upon the market place, Hooting and shrieking.”
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