According to Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable a special kind of stone was to be found at Assos, the now Turkish town where Aristotle lived.
根据《布留沃现代成语与寓言词典》,在亚朔可找到一种特殊的石头。亚朔是亚里士多德曾经居住的地方,如今成了土耳其的一个小镇。
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable confidently declares that it is because doctors used leeches extensively to heal people that leeches started to be called by what people called the doctors.
布鲁尔的短语和寓言词典明确指出因为医生广泛应用蚂蟥来治愈病人,所以leeches开始用来指称医生。
Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable steers us back to Latin in explaining that Pliny thought hyenas had a kind of stone in their eye, that if you put under your tongue gave the gift of prophecy.
《布留沃成语和寓言词典》把我们的视线拉回到拉丁语世界,它写道,古罗马作家普林尼认为,鬣狗的眼睛里有某种石头,若把它压在舌头下,你就能预知未来。
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