摘要
As Americans prepare to sit down for a national day of feasting Thursday1,what some of us may be wondering is,why is our Thanksgiving bird named after a Middle Eastern nation?Blame it on the Portuguese.But just to show that we’re almost all in the same muddled2linguistic boat,their word for turkey is peru.
As Americans prepare to sit down for a national day of feasting Thursday1, what some of us may be wondering is, why is our Thanksgiving bird named after a Middle Eastern nation?
Blame it on the Portuguese. But just to show that we're almost all in the same muddled2 linguistic boat, their word for turkey is peru.
出处
《大学英语》
2016年第3期52-54,共3页
College English