| 词汇 | concatenation |
| 词源 | concatenation; concatenated sins. Concatenation simply means a chain, the word deriving from the Latin catena, “chain.” One early (1688) felicitous writer described two lovers as “the most affectionate couple since the concatenation of Adam and Eve,” while John Donne wrote of “concatenated sins.” |
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