英语词汇third rail的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	third rail
词源	third rail. The most daring of us who played in the railyard and swam in the river were those who walked on the thick boards covering the third rail. A few were even electrocuted by the deadly rail and it came to be associated with death in phras- es like “the third rail of American politics” in as early as 1982. A much fuller account can be found in William Safire’s On Lan- guage column in the New York Times of February 18, 2007.
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