Evidently the Romans thought that a paintbrush looked something like an animal’s tail because their word peniculus is the diminutive of their word for an animal’s tail.

很显然，罗马人认为画笔和动物的尾巴很像，因为这个词——peniculus——就是某种动物“尾巴”的小词形式（译注1）。

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Evidently the Romans thought that a paintbrush looked something like an animal’s tail because their word peniculus is the diminutive of their word for an animal’s tail.

很显然，罗马人认为画笔和动物的尾巴很像，因为这个词——peniculus——就是某种动物“尾巴”的小词形式（译注1）。

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