etymology

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  • n.词源学
  • Web语源学；语源学说；辞源
Plural Form：etymologies  

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etymology
n.
1.
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词源学the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings
2.
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词源the origin and history of a particular word

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With this etymology something sublime is "up to the top of the door. "
有了这个词源，sublime的意思就成了“到达门的顶端”。
yǒu liǎo zhè ge cí yuán , sublime de yì si jiu chéng le " dào dá mén de dǐng duān " 。
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2.
The etymology of the word harbinger is tied up in that "forerunner" meaning.
harbinger这个词的来源和“先行者”是联系在一起的。
harbinger zhè ge cí de lái yuán hé " xiān xíng zhě " shì lián xì zài yì qǐ de 。
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3.
Although there isn't authoritative evidence to back this story up the etymology of pretzel tends to support at least part of the story.
尽管人们并没有权威的证据来证实这个故事，但至少它还是部分得到了pretzel词源的支持。
jǐn guǎn rén men bìng méi yǒu quán wēi de zhèng jù lái zhèng shí zhè ge gù shi , dàn zhì shǎo tā hái shì bù fen dé dào le pretzel cí yuán de zhī chí 。
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4.
This prompted me to look up the etymology of the word swear and I'll get to that in a moment.
这起小事件促使我去查询swear（咒骂）这个词的词根，一会儿就来讨论这个问题。
zhè qǐ xiǎo shì jiàn cù shǐ wǒ qù chá xún swear ( zhòu mà ) zhè ge cí de cí gēn , yī huì er jiù lái tǎo lùn zhè ge wèn tí 。
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5.
At first recruits were only military and the main reason the military needed recruits is actually tied up in the word's etymology.
最初，新丁（recruits）只是针对军队而言的，而军队需要新兵的主要原因是与这个词的词源紧密联系在一起的。
zuì chū , xīn dīng ( recruits ) zhǐ shì zhēn duì jūn duì ér yán de , ér jūn duì xū yào xīn bīng de zhǔ yào yuán yīn shì yǔ zhè ge cí de cí yuán jǐn mì lián xì zài yì qǐ de 。
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6.
The explanation of these two terms in The Great Chinese Dictionary and Chinese Etymology Dictionary needs to be further investigated.
对于这两个词，《汉语大词典》和《辞源》的解释是值得商榷的。
duì yú zhè liǎng gè cí , 《 hàn yǔ dà cí diǎn 》 hé 《 cí yuán 》 de jiě shì shì zhí de shāng què de 。
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7.
Now that you've read through all of that here's the much simplified etymology of the word simple.
现在你已经读完了，下面说单词simple的更简化的词源。
xiàn zài nǐ yǐ jīng dú wán le , xià mian shuō dān cí simple de gèng jiǎn huà de cí yuán 。
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8.
I'll save the worst till last and before I tell you I'll just touch on the word butter and its etymology.
最刺激的就留到最后说吧。让我先来告诉你“butter”这个词和它的词源。
zuì cì jī de jiù liú dào zuì hòu shuō ba 。 ràng wǒ xiān lái gào su nǐ " butter " zhè ge cí hé tā de cí yuán 。
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9.
I'm also really into the fact that the etymology of seersucker came from my own country, India (thank you Wikipedia).
而且我知道，这种泡泡纱的材质最初是在我的家乡印度发现的（谢谢基维百科）。
ér qiě wǒ zhī dào , zhè zhǒng pào pào shā de cái zhì zuì chū shì zài wǒ de jiā xiāng yìn dù fā xiàn de ( xiè xiè jī wéi bǎi kē ) 。
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10.
With an etymology that boils down to "without an owner" one might think such a name would encourage car theft.
由于这个词有“没有主人”的意味，人们可以将这个名字理解为鼓励偷车。
yóu yú zhè ge cí yǒu " méi yǒu zhǔ rén " de yì wèi , rén men kě yǐ jiāng zhè ge míng zì lǐ jiě wéi gǔ lì tōu chē 。
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