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单词 sour grapes
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sour grapes
the grapes are sour (now usually sour grapes (see sour adj. and n.1 Compounds 1c)): said proverbially with allusion to Æsop's fable of ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, when a person is heard to disparage something which it is suspected he would be glad to possess if he could.extracted from grapen.1
sour grapes
sour grapes n. see grape n.1 1a.
extracted from souradj.n.1
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