She's also seen an increase in incorrect word use, with students reaching for a word that sounds correct, whose proper meaning is just a bit off from what they intend to say.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Hamas is a word that literally means violence, bloodshed, but also all kinds of injustice and oppression.

哈马斯在文学中是暴力，血腥，各种压迫和不公平的意思。

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Second, he says, because humans also emerge ultimately from this primordial realm there's a confusion of the boundary between he chooses the word "confusion"--that's common in pagan religion.

其次，考夫曼说，因为人类最终也是起源于这个原始领域,所以对于怎么划分神族和凡人,-考夫曼选择了异教中常见的“困惑“来形容此界限。

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If you look at it long enough, it is a word that opens and spreads out, makes a circle of a far horizon, a word on which rain can fall and dimple or sweep across in lashing gusts and leave unperturbed, a word that is calm enough to look at, almost lulling, but also hints at holding unreckonable power."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Surely this word prevent also has a little bit of its modern meaning.

阻止这个词很显然也有一点现代的意思。

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There is in other words in Ricoeur's view a hermeneutics of suspicion, and "skepticism" or "suspicion" is a word that can also be appropriated perhaps more rigorously for philosophy as negativity.

换句话说，在利科看来存在着怀疑解释学，怀疑主义，或，怀疑,在哲学上表示否定是可以的,或许更严格。

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The Republic is also a utopia, a word that Plato does not use, was not coined until many, many centuries later by Sir Thomas More.

理想国》也是乌托邦，一个柏拉图不使用的词汇，直到数个世纪之后,才由Sir，Thomas，More，杜撰出来。

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Nature also is not divine. It's demythologized, de-divinized, If that's a word; the created world is not divine, It is not the physical manifestation of various deities, an earth god, a water god and so on.

自然是没有神性的，它是没有神话色彩也没有神性的，如果可以这样说的话，被创造出来的世界并不神圣，它并不是众神实体的显形，是一个土地神或者水神或者诸如此类。

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For a lot of Protestants in the early seventeenth century, the word chastitycould also be used to refer to the state of what could be called married chastity: - married chastity was a type of bodily purity that could be extended -- -- or a spiritual purity as well -- that could be extended even into marriage.

对早期17世纪的新教徒来说，贞节这个词也可以用来,表示婚姻贞节：,婚姻贞节是一种可以延伸的身体上的纯洁-,同样也是一种精神的纯洁-,那种纯洁甚至可以延伸至结婚以后。

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