查询词典 folk

Mike : Does Jim like folk dancing ?

迈克：吉姆喜欢民族舞蹈吗？

Jim doesn't care much for folk dancing.

吉姆不怎么喜欢民族舞蹈。

It hosts folk dancing and craft demonstrations in the summer, and also contains a collection of author Henrik Ibsen's works.

它东道主民族舞蹈和手工艺示范在夏季，而且还包含一个收集作者易卜生的作品。

Inviting us to an evening of Basque folk dancing.

邀请我们参加一个巴斯克民间舞蹈晚会

A linguistic process called folk etymology is observed frequently in regional U.S. dialects.

一种叫作大众词源学的语言过程，经常出现在美国地区方言中。

Folk etymology causes an unfamiliar and difficult word to be replaced with a similar-sounding word or phrase whose meaning happens to coincide in a way that makes sense.

大众词源使一些不熟悉的和困难的词用一个有相似发音的词或词组代替，后者的意思恰好在某种程度上符合原义。

The word Gilead is also linked -- through a folk etymology -- with the idea of witnessing.

按通俗变化语，吉利厄德还有"见证"的意思。

The word woodchuck is probably a folk etymology of a New England Algonquian word—that is, English-speaking settlers "translated" the Indian word into a compound of two words that made sense to them in light of the animal's habitat.

woodchuck 这个词可能是新英格兰阿尔贡金语中民间起源的语汇──就是说，讲英语的殖民者的把这个印度语单词根据这种动物的习性"翻"成了两个字的合成词，以使其有意义

Folk etymology—the process by which an unfamiliar element in a word is changed to resemble a more familiar word,often one that is semantically associated with the word being refashioned—has triumphed once again,thus denying us the direct borrowing of aru-aru and giving us arrowroot instead.

词的通俗变化就是比较陌生的词被比较熟悉的词所替代的过程，常常是被一个语义上与被翻新的词有联系的词。这里，通俗词汇学又一次取得胜利，不允许我们直接借用 aru-aru ，而是另给了我们一个 arrowroot 。

The Sumerian name Enki seen as "Lord Earth"(en 'lord', ki 'earth') is a case of folk etymology, because the name is originally enki, with -g appearing in connections.

苏美尔语的名字恩奇被看成"大地之主"（恩是"主"，奇是"大地"），是文字之通俗变化的一个例子，因为原本名字是恩奇格，末尾以g作为关联。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷