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His mother, on the other hand , was paternal, and even, according to the slang of the day, gubernatorial

他的母亲倒象父亲，按照当时通俗的说法，甚至有些象首长。

Reason: Addicks derives from the South London slang for the Haddock fish.

原因：来自与伦敦南部的俚语，意思是一种黑线鳕鱼。

Another word posh was 19th- and early 20th-century British slang for "money," specifically "a halfpenny, cash of small value."

牛津英语词典增补本也许为 posh找到了一个或多个可能的词源。

Although a great deal of the time she was full of false heartiness, jollying one along with mannish slang 'Buck up, old chap!

即便很多时候她会表现出虚伪的热忱，不在讲那些"振作点，小破孩！"

She remains a model student, for example making detailed lists of gay slang terms and lore, but homosexuality also causes her to engage with the concrete details of life — for instance, in her evocations of gay bars in late 1940s San Francisco — in ways that her high-mindedness curtails in other areas.

我对这段的理解是，和她对生活中其他领域高度自觉性的省略相比，她对40年代晚期旧金山同志酒吧的描述却是具体的，细节化的（前文的engage with the concrete details of life

But it is unclear how long this taste for pont the Russian slang term for high-status goods will last.

但目前尚不清楚，这种对pont（俄罗斯俚语，意思是高档商品）的爱好会持续多久。

In Japan the fetishistic love for two-dimensional characters is enough of a phenomenon to have earned its own slang word, moe, homonymous with the Japanese words for "burning" or "budding."

在日本，那种对于二维虚拟人物的迷恋癖，已经成为一种被命名为"萌"的现象。"萌"，在日语中的意思是"燃烧"或者"萌发"。

In Japan the fetishistic love for two-dimensional characters is enough of a phenomenon to have earned its own slang word, moe , homonymous with the Japanese words for "burning" or "budding."

在日本，对于二维美少女的狂热现象如此之盛，这足够为它自己博得一个美称：即"萌"，在日文中和"燃烧"、"萌芽"同义。

" Grass " is a criminal slang for "informer"....

grass 是犯罪用的俚语，意思是"告密的人"。。。

I also love the name Ernie Prang -"prang" is old RAF slang for "crash", extended to road traffic, and is associated with a rather insouciant attitude to crashes, as in "pranged the Jag last week - what a bore!".

我也爱极了"厄恩·普兰"这个名字－－"普兰"，prang，是过去英国皇家海军的俚语，"撞机"的意思，也延伸到陆地交通，就是"撞车"。这个词也带着对撞车并不太关心、甚至可说是漫不经心的态度，比如要说"上星期撞毁了架战斗机－－真烦！"。

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。