英语词汇cesspool的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cesspool
词源	cesspool. Cesspool, a covered hole for sewage, or any filthy, disgusting place, may come from the Italian cesso, privy, which is from the Latin secessus. A more likely candidate is the French souspirail, a vent or breathing hole. Cesspool has many figura- tive uses, as in “He has a mind like a cesspool,” or “The man is a deep cesspool of ego.”
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