| 释义 |
folk etymology
释义
民间词源：将词语转换为与其他更为知名或更易理解的词语有表面关联的过程。
例句
1·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。
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2·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。
3·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。
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