| 词汇 | tunnel |
| 词源 | tunnel. In Medieval English a tonel was a net with a wide mouth used to trap birds. From this word derived tunnell, for “the shaft of a chimney or any pipe or tube,” which gave us the word tunnel, for “an underground passage.” |
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