英语词汇plymouth rock的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Plymouth Rock. According to legend, the Pilgrims stepped on this boulder when they disembarked from the Mayflower to make the first permanent white settlement in New England (on the coast of Massachusetts in 1620). At the start of each year at Harvard, the Swiss-born naturalist and educator Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–73) would tell his classes: “Gentle- men, the world is older than we have been taught to think. Its age is as if one were gently to rub a silk handkerchief across Plymouth Rock once a year until it were reduced to a pebble.”

词汇	plymouth rock
词源	Plymouth Rock. According to legend, the Pilgrims stepped on this boulder when they disembarked from the Mayflower to make the first permanent white settlement in New England (on the coast of Massachusetts in 1620). At the start of each year at Harvard, the Swiss-born naturalist and educator Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–73) would tell his classes: “Gentle- men, the world is older than we have been taught to think. Its age is as if one were gently to rub a silk handkerchief across Plymouth Rock once a year until it were reduced to a pebble.”
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