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词汇 connecticut yankee
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Connecticut Yankee. An old term for a very sharp and cun- ning person; Mark Twain used it in his A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), in which an ingenious Yankee me- chanic, knocked out in a fight, awakens to find himself in Camelot.
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