| 词汇 | i have lost a day |
| 词源 | I have lost a day. According to the Roman historian Suetoni- us in his Life of Titus, the Roman emperor uttered these words at the end of a day when he had done no good to anyone. Titus, who reigned from a.d. 79 to 81, is known as the conqueror of Jerusalem and as the lover of Berenice, daughter of the Jewish king Herod, their ill-fated romance the subject of Racine’s trag- edy Bérénice. |
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