A nickname can also be a descriptive name for a person, place or thing.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Then the government created a second such institution called --and they gave it a boy's name with a nickname, boy's name--Freddie Mac.

之后政府成立了第二个类似机构,他们给它起了个男孩名字,一个昵称,叫做房地美

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Oh I forgot. Do any of you follow Ja, ? use a nickname?

我忘了，你们有谁也是这样么，用昵称的？

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Nebraska is the only state to have a nickname that honors sports teams!

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Somewhere around 200,suppose that my friends give me a nickname.

大约200岁时，我的朋友们给了我一个昵称。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

A nickname also can be a descriptive name for a person,place or thing.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

this is a college exercise -- Milton's college nickname was the Lady.

那只是一个大学时的练习，叫小姐。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As we told you last week, every American state has a nickname.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

it's too easy but it's also too delicious to take this little biographical fact of Milton's college nickname and use it in some way as a tool for reading A Mask.

这简单却有趣,把弥尔顿大学时的昵称记事,利用并作为一种工具去阅读《面具》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

A nickname is a shortened form of a person's name.

VOA: special.2011.07.24

Dixie itself is a nickname for the American South.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

A nickname also can describe a person,place or thing.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

A few years ago,some marketing and advertising experts were asked to name the best nickname for an American city.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

"Tre is named after his father David Glenn. But he's a third so that's how his nickname is Tre.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

South Carolina's nickname is the easier of the two: It is The Palmetto State because of a fan-leafed palm tree that grows there.

VOA: special.2011.01.16

South Carolina's nickname is the easier of the two: It is the Palmetto State because of a fan-leafed palm tree that grows there.

VOA: special.2011.01.16

In nineteen eighty-seven, that book was made into a film which made the nickname even more popular.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

North Dakota gets its nickname, "The Flickertail State" not from some bird, but from a little squirrel.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

We met a woman on the National Mall whose nickname is Charlie.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Kansas also has a "hawkish" nickname: "The Jayhawk State."

VOA: special.2009.08.09

His follow-up stint as a watermelon farmer in Oklahoma earned him the nickname Watermelon Slim, a name he also gives to his own special brand of music.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04