| 词汇 | madcap scheme |
| 词源 | madcap scheme. Today a madcap scheme is a rash, reckless, wildly impulsive scheme, while a madcap is a person with the same characteristics. But in times past a madcap was simply a crazy person, the word deriving from mad for “crazy” and cap as a synonym for “head.” This term, used by Shakespeare, is first recorded by his detractor Robert Greene, in 1589. |
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