| 词汇 | passel |
| 词源 | passel. Parcel has been pronounced “passel,” without the r, since at least the late 15th century. But the use of passel as a col- lective noun indicating an indefinite number dates back to 19th-century America. Wrote Mark Twain in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884): “[They] just kept a-smiling and bob- bing their heads like a passel of sapheads.” |
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