英语词汇truth lay at the bottom of the well的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	truth lay at the bottom of the well
词源	truth lay at the bottom of the well. An expression British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) may have coined after he leaped into the Arno River and his friend Edward Trelawny, a strong swimmer, saved him. Shelley protested, saying, “The truth always lay at the bottom of the well and in another minute I should have found it.” Despite several such close calls Shelley never learned to swim and did indeed drown when his schoon- er, the Ariel, sank in the Gulf of Spezia.
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