英语词汇clink的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	clink
词源	clink. Clink, which is still heard humorously as the term for a jail, dates back at least to 1515, when a writer noted, “Then art thou clapped in the . . . Clinke.” One theory has the word deriv- ing from “a noted jail in the borough of Southwark.” Milton is among the distinguished writers to have used the term. To kiss the clink was an expression, now virtually obsolete, meaning to be imprisoned.
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