英语词汇tinef的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	tinef
词源	Tinef. Tinef was the name Albert Einstein himself gave his 15-foot sailboat, this Yiddish word meaning “junk” or “worth- less.” The same word could have described Einstein’s own sail- ing abilities, according to others who sailed in Cutchogue on the North Fork of Long Island in the summer of 1939. But Ein- stein later recalled those days were his “happiest summer ever.” Even when he was capsizing his boat—several times!
随便看	on the nail on the nose on the pad on the pig-s back on the qui vive on the rocks on the ropes on the same sheet of music with on the shady side of 40 on the side of the angels on the spot on the spree on the square on the tip of my tongue on the town on the wagon on the warpath on the whole i’d rather be in philadelphia on the wrong side of the door when brains were handed out on tick on velvet on your own hook oo oof oomph

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