词源

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。

Traditions in the Midrash concerning Lilith, and her sexual appetite, have been compared to Sumerian mythology concerning the demon ki-sikil-lil-la-ke, by scholars who postulate an intermediate Akkadian folk etymology interpreting the lil-la-ke portion of the name as a corruption of lilitu, literally meaning female night demon.

在《米德拉西》的传统里面，有关莉莉丝以及她的性取向问题，可以比作闪族人神话中的魔鬼 ki-sikil-lil-la-ke ，被学者们假定的一种阿卡德语词源学解释的一个媒介，名字的其中一部分 lil-la-ke 是 lilitu 的一个源头，字面意思是"夜间的女魔鬼"。

One source calls in Fremlin beer bottles to explain the word;another, the Irish Gaelic wordgruaimín,"ill-humored little fellow."

一种说法用弗来姆林啤酒瓶来解释这一词；而另一种认为爱尔兰凯尔特语词汇gruaimin 意为"坏脾气的小家伙"为其词源。

The word eugenics derives from the Greek word eu and the suffix -genēs, and was coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883, who defined it as "the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the racial quality of future generations".

优生学一词源于希腊语eu和后缀genēs，弗朗西斯·高尔顿爵士于1883年发明了这一术语，他的定义是，"研究所有可以改善或损害种族后代质量的、由人类控制的手段和方法"。

The etymology of the term is obvious﹐fitting the 〝info-〞of information onto the 〝-ganda〞of propaganda.

其词源学的意义是很明显的，把"信息"加在"宣传"上。

Sixty-nine years ago today, a ghost word was outed from its hiding place on page 771 of Webster's New International Dictionary, where it had spent five comfortable years. Dord started life on a slip of paper prepared by the lexicon's chemistry editor, who noted that "D or d" was an abbreviation for density. A serendipitous misinterpretation saw the entry being read as a single word, dord, and it was accordingly registered and printed up as a noun with the meaning "density." No proofreader caught the error, but five years later an editor noticed the word had no etymology and began the investigation that led to the word's being banished.

六十九年前的今天，一个谜一样的词被世人发现，这个词在韦伯斯特新国际字典的771页整整藏了5年Dord一词因为一张小纸片而开始了它的生涯，这张小纸片是由lexicon的化学主编准备的，他标注出了"D or d"是密度的缩写这条记录很偶然的被认为是一个完整的单词，dord之后它被作为一个名词收入词典并印刷出来，意思是"密度"所有的校对人员都没有发现这个错误，但是五年后，一名编辑注意到这个词没有词源，然后他开始溯源并最终将这个词从词典中去除

The famous expertof global problem in Russian also point out that from derivation,this glossary of"global"comes from Latin"globosity"after textual research.

俄罗斯著名的全球性问题专家阿·恩·丘马科夫经过考证后也指出，在"词源学上，'全球性的'这一术语源自拉丁语'地球'"。

It comes from "googol", the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.

"google"一词源于单词"googol"，即10的100次幂，写出的形式为数字1后跟100个零，表示数量极大。

Graphic representation of computer circuitry ....

图示的计算机电路 logic的词源：11。

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。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。