来自希腊词地名Castana, 至于树以地名还是地以树名尚存争议。nut, 坚果。比较current.
Zav. Let me see--ay! it is exactly six years since that peace being restored to Spain, and my ship paid off, my kind brother offered me a snug hammock in the dwelling of my forefathers. I mounted a mule at Barcelona and trotted away for my native mountains. At the dawn of the fourth day's journey, I entered the wood of Collares, when, suddenly, from the thick boughs of a cork-tree--Jefferson traced the connection through William Warren, "the veteran comedian of Boston" who often played Pablo in the melodrama.
Pab. [Jumping up.] A chesnut, Captain, a chesnut!
Zav. Bah, you booby! I say, a cork!
Pab. And I swear, a chesnut. Captain, this is the twenty-seventh time I have heard you relate this story, and you invariably said, a chesnut, till now.
a joke, story, or subject that has become tedious and uninteresting because of its age and constant repetition
陈腐的笑话;老掉牙的故事;陈旧乏味的题材
succeed in a hazardous undertaking for someone else's benefit
为某人火中取栗,为他人冒风险
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