pun

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  • n.双关语
  • v.使用双关语
  • Web一语双关；潘；妙语双关
Plural Form：puns  Past Tense：punned  Present Participle：punning  

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n.
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双关语the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or of words that have different meanings but sound the same
We're banking on them lending us the money─no pun intended!
我们正指望他们借给我们钱呢 —bank 绝无双关之意！
v.
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使用双关语to make a pun

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The parallel (pun intended! ) between the two technologies is largely due to the compositional nature of the latter.
两个技术之间的相似（绝对不是故意的！）主要是由于后者的复合性质。
liǎng gè jì shù zhī jiān de xiāng sì ( jué duì bú shì gù yì de ! ) zhǔ yào shì yóu yú hòu zhě de fù hé xìng zhì 。
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And if anyone's ever had severe constipation, and you don't understand how much of an impact that has on your life, yes that was a pun.
所以，如果有人有过严重的便秘，并且你不知道这会给你的生活带来什么样的影响，是的，那是一个双关语。
suǒ yǐ , rú guǒ yǒu rén yǒu guò yán zhòng de biàn mì , bìng qiě nǐ bù zhī dào zhè huì gěi nǐ de shēng huó dài lái shén me yàng de yǐng xiǎng , shì de , nà shì yī gè shuāng guān yǔ 。
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Being able to properly validate and ensure that this attribute's value is always present can be invaluable (no pun intended).
能够正确验证并确保存在属性值是非常重要的（避免出现双关语）。
néng gòu zhèng què yàn zhèng bìng què bǎo cún zài shǔ xìng zhí shì fēi cháng zhòng yào de ( bì miǎn chū xiàn shuāng guān yǔ ) 。
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Some sort of pun on the word 'tracks' may be intended.
可能作者一语双关，用火车暗指“轨迹”。
kě néng zuò zhě yì yǔ shuāng guān , yòng huǒ chē àn zhǐ " guǐ jì " 。
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However certain advertisers do not always transfer their intents directly, but in some indirect ways, and one of them is pun.
但是很多广告却常常不直接表达所要传递的信息，而是通过间接的方式来表达，双关语就是其中之一。
dàn shì hěn duō guǎng gào què cháng cháng bù zhí jiē biǎo dá suǒ yào chuán dì de xìn xī , ér shì tōng guò jiàn jiē de fāng shì lái biǎo dá , shuāng guān yǔ jiù shì qí zhōng zhī yī 。
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Quoting the chairman, Pun said his party would not copy any other model of democracy but would establish a unique system suitable to Nepal.
皮恩引用普拉昌达的话说，他们党不会照抄其它任何形式的民主，而会建立一种专门适合尼泊尔的制度。
pí ēn yǐn yòng pǔ lā chāng dá de huà shuō , tā men dǎng bú huì zhào chāo qí tā rèn hé xíng shì de mín zhǔ , ér huì jiàn lì yī zhǒng zhuān mén shì hé ní bó ěr de zhì dù 。
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(L) Was that a little bit of a pun?
（笑声）（L）那是不是有点一语双关？
( xiào shēng ) ( L ) nà shì bu shì yǒu diǎn yì yǔ shuāng guān ?
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It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
最初设计给单一的使用者（名称是早期操作系统Multics的谐音）。
zuì chū shè jì gěi dān yī de shǐ yòng zhě ( míng chēng shì zǎo qī cāo zuò xì tǒng Multics de xié yīn ) 。
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A pun is commonly used in advertisements of one of the rhetoric, so the translation of a pun on advertising, is important.
双关语是广告中常用的修辞手法之一，因此广告双关语的翻译就尤为重要。
shuāng guān yǔ shì guǎng gào zhōng cháng yòng de xiū cí shǒu fǎ zhī yī , yīn cǐ guǎng gào shuāng guān yǔ de fān yì jiù yóu wéi zhòng yào 。
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A pun is the lowest form of humour- when you do not think of it first.
幽默的最低级的形式——当你不是头一个想到他的时候。
yōu mò de zuì dī jí de xíng shì —— dāng nǐ bú shì tóu yī gè xiǎng dào tā de shí hou 。
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