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词汇 will-o’-the-wisp
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will-o’-the-wisp

noun
/ˌwɪl ə ðə ˈwɪsp/
/ˌwɪl ə ðə ˈwɪsp/
[usually singular]
  1. a thing that is impossible to obtain; a person that you cannot depend on难以捉摸的人(或事物);镜花水月;虚无之物
  2. a blue light that is sometimes seen at night on soft, wet ground and is caused by natural gases burning磷火;鬼火
  3. 词源early 17th cent.: originally as Will with the wisp, the sense of wisp being ‘handful of (lighted) hay’.
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