词汇 | hopscotch |
词源 | hopscotch. The Scots didn’t invent the ancient children’s game, and the scotch in its name had nothing to do with them; either, deriving from the lines that are hopped in the game, these being scotched, or scored, in the ground. In fact, the game was once called hop-score. |
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