英语词汇clipped ears的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	clipped ears
词源	clipped ears. Though the term isn’t recorded in A Dictionary of Americanisms, Australians who migrated to the California gold fields in 1849 were often called clipped ears, because a cer- tain number of them had been criminals who had suffered the punishment of ear clipping in Australia.
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