英语词汇truth is stranger than fiction的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	truth is stranger than fiction
词源	truth is stranger than fiction. Lord Byron is the author of the saying, in his poem Don Juan (1823): “ ’Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange; / Stranger than fiction. . . .”
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