| 词汇 | jell |
| 词源 | jell; It didn’t jell. Jell is an Americanism meaning “to congeal or jelly” and may have been invented by Louisa May Alcott in her book Little Women (1869), where it is first recorded. The expression it didn’t jell, “it didn’t work, it failed,” is first recorded in 1949. |
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