Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years. Sir Thomas More used the expression in fifteen thirty-four. He wrote, "Our poor family ... has fallen in such dumps."词汇专家查尔斯`芬克(Charles Funk)说,人们使用down in the dumps这种表述已经有400多年历史.1534年,托马斯先生使用了这种表述,他当时写到,"贫困家庭的情绪已经跌入谷底."
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