The other day on the blog the Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman just happened to mention in passing that the word "window" evolved from an earlier pair of words "wind" and "eye."

某一天，牛津词源学家Anatoly Liberman正好在他的博客上顺笔提到，window(窗户)是从“风”和“眼睛”这一对词演变而来。

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The chill wind on her cheek was Elizabeth's breath. The glint of a river seen through winter trees was the bright spark of malice in Elizabeth's eye.

那惨白的天空变成了伊丽莎白的面庞，刺痛脸颊的寒风仿佛是伊丽莎白的呼吸，而在冬日树林中闪耀穿行的河水则是伊丽莎白眼中的凶光。

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The great review last autumn produced a plan that both ramped up the war in a hurry and, with an eye on the 2012 election, set a date of July 2011 to begin to wind it down as well.

去年秋天的伟大的报告产生出一个计划，急促地扩大战争，着眼于2012年的大选，同时确定于2011年的7月解决它。

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Earlier this year, the spectacular bird was again in the eye of an Australian storm, this time over another, larger wind park in Victoria, even though research had suggested that the threat to parrots is small.

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