a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
As the dictionary tells us about 2, 000 new words and phrases were invented by William Shakespeare.
就如字典告诉我们的，大约2000个新单词和短语是莎士比亚造出的。
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In the spire, William Golding tells a story of Dean Jocelin s building of a four-hundred-foot spire on a Cathedral which itself lacks sufficient foundations.