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Back-alley butcher :卑鄙的屠夫 Slang for abortionist.

俚语，给人施行流产手术的人。

Noodle"is English slang that dates back to the 18th century for "head"."

这里的意思可不是"面条"，而是指"头脑"。

All bills are the same size and color, printed black in front and green in back (slang: greenback).

它们的正面是黑色，反面是墨绿色。所以在俚语中美元纸币也被称作greenback。

This slang language traces back to the Victorian era where the practice of polarization between the rich who were immensely wealthy and the penniless who were devastatingly poor.

这句俚语可以追溯到19世纪英国维多利亚时代。当时的封建社会贫富的差距非常大；富裕的很有钱，而极度贫穷的，身无分文。

But Merriam-Webster traces ginormous back to 1948, when it appeared in a British dictionary of military slang.

韦氏词典》则将ginormous一词追溯至1948年，当时这个词出现在英国的一个军事词典中。

Eng.(the verb is attested from 1937), probably in part a back-formation of hyperbole, but also from underworld slang sense "swindle by overcharging or short-changing"(1926), a back-formation of hyper "short-change con man"(1914), from prefix hyper- meaning "over, to excess."

改译：在科学研究领域里，为了争取研究经费，顶尖科学家每每大肆宣扬自己的研究成果，却不肯透露这些研究可能的用途。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。