英语词汇prevarication的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	prevarication
词源	prevarication. Roman farmers who ploughed crooked ridges in Rome were called praevaricors, their name deriving from the Latin verb for “to go zigzag or crooked.” The next step was to apply the word to men who deviated from the straight line and gave crooked answers in courts of law, which gave us our word prevarication, or “lie.” See also delirium.
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