英语词汇in a word的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	in a word
词源	in a word. Brief, shortly. Shakespeare may have coined this phrase, for he is the first to record it, in Two Gentlemen of Vero- na (1591): “And in a word . . . he is compleat in feature and in mind.”
随便看	feh feijoa feisty fella fellowfeel fellow traveler fell types fell with a dead thud female female language fence-mending fender-bender fennel fermium ferret ferris wheel fertilizer ferule fescennine fetus few and far between fey feydeauesque feynman diagram fez

英语词源词典收录了13259条英语词源词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的起源、历史，是研究英语词汇或通过词源学英语的必备工具。