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单词 will-o’-the-wisp
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will-o’-the-wisp

noun
/ˌwɪl ə ðə ˈwɪsp/
/ˌwɪl ə ðə ˈwɪsp/
[usually singular]
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  1. a thing that is impossible to obtain; a person that you cannot depend on
  2. a blue light that is sometimes seen at night on soft, wet ground and is caused by natural gases burning
  3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: originally as Will with the wisp, the sense of wisp being ‘handful of (lighted) hay’.
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