| 词汇 | lovelorn |
| 词源 | lovelorn. No Mr. Lonelyhearts invented the word lovelorn, for “someone forlorn or pining for love.” John Milton coined the word in Comus, A Masque (1634), a pastoral entertain- ment in which a character says to another: “Where the love- lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well.” Milton also coined all-conquering, earth-shaking, and smooth-shaven. |
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