英语词汇play for the love of it的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	play for the love of it
词源	play for the love of it. There’s nothing new about this expres- sion, meaning to play a game without stakes, for the pleasure of playing. It has its origins in Samuel Butler’s satire Hudibras (1678), which tells of those who “play for love and money, too.”
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