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1 词典释义:
folk etymology
时间: 2025-06-23 12:57:07

n.词的通俗变化(指用比较熟悉的词代替不熟悉的词,如用sparrowgrass代替asparagus);通俗词源,民间词源(指对某一词语来源的普遍但错误的看法);

双语例句
  • Folk etymology has created the cheeseburger and the beanburger, but the first hamburgers were in fact named after the city of Hamburg.

    民间词源创造了cheeseburger和beanburger,但最初hamburger一词实际上是以德国汉堡市命名的。

    《牛津词典》
  • He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.

    他显然是错了,但几个世纪后,他通俗易通的词源学仍坚实地盘踞这众人的意识之中。

  • Folk-etymology concerns the particular variation phenomenon of lexical meanings during the language evolution.

    流俗词源就是语言演变过程中出现的特殊词义变异现象。