英语词源（etymology）

词源趣谈 | play possum 假装睡着，装死

2023年4月23日

play possum 指为了欺骗某人而装睡、装死或装傻。这一表达与美洲负鼠的习性有关，它们为了免于受到其他动物的威胁或攻击而装死或假装失去知觉。

短篇小说 | The Enchanted Bluff

2023年4月22日

We had our swim before sundown, and while we were cooking our supper the oblique rays of light made a dazzling glare on the white sand about us.

短篇小说 | The Pimienta Pancakes

2023年4月21日

While we were rounding up a bunch of the Triangle-O cattle in the Frio bottoms a projecting branch of a dead mesquite caught my wooden stirrup and gave my ankle a wrench that laid me up in camp for a week.