英语词汇the race is not to the swift的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the race is not to the swift
词源	the race is not to the swift. “The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,” according to Ecclesiastes 9:11. The bib- lical phrase has become proverbial over the past 400 years and has several humorous variations, including American humor- ist Franklin Pierce Adams’s much-quoted “The race is not the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but the betting is best that way.”
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