他不知道这个单词的意思。
词汇专家们对dumps这个单词的意思并不完全同意。
如果你不知道这个单词的意思，你可以查一下词典。
You may look up the word in the dictionary if you don't know its meaning.
这个单词的意思使你想起你知道的或做过的一些事吗？
Does the meaning of the word remind you of something that you know or have done?
不过，随着时间的推移，这个单词的意思发生的转变——它不再指一种内科医生无法找到名字来称呼的病症，而是指一种内科医生并不相信其真实存在的病症。
But with time the meaning of the word shifted so that it came to mean not an illness the physician had no other name for, but an illness that the physician didn't actually believe was there.
让孩子跳过这个单词，读剩下的篇章，然后试着猜空缺单词的意思。
Ask the child to jump over the word and read the rest, then try to guess the meaning of the missing word.
它包括四个步骤：看到一个单词，回忆这个词的意思，将它与句子中其他单词联系起来，再看下一个单词。这个过程同时调动了大脑的很多部分进行工作。
It includes four steps: seeing a word, getting back its meaning from your memory, connecting it to other words in the same sentence, and then moving on to the next word. This process uses many parts of the brain at one time.
大约500年前，英语吸纳了这个单词，并以隐喻的方式——我一直都在本文中讨论这个意思——来使用它。
English drew this word into the language in a metaphorical way about 500 years ago and applied it just as I've been discussing here.
当然，在这个意思的基础之上，该单词又有了其他各种各样的意思。
Of course with that basic meaning all kinds of other meanings adhere themselves to the word.
首先，你先要了解单词的意思，或是从课文中了解这个单词的具体意思，这样你就能够很好的理解。
First, you have to know the meaning of the word, or rather from a context, so you can understand it better.
出于这个原因，从事顾问称之为“改善”的方法是个好主意——这是一个日语单词，意思是持续改进。
For that reason, it's a good idea to engage in what the consultants call "kaizen" - a Japanese word for continuous improvement.
五分之一的人(占总数19%)不知道法语中表示“你好”的单词的意思，但这个单词是世界上最有名的外国问候语之一。
One fifth (19 per cent) did not know the meaning of the French word for hello, one of the most recognisable foreign greetings in the world.
当你的孩子学习新的单词时，告诉他这个词在第二种外语中的意思。
As your child learns new words, tell him what they're called in a second language too.
这个“大众分类法”是一个融合了单词“分类”和“大众”，意思就是大众创造的概念结构。
The word “folksonomy” is a blend of the words “taxonomy” and “folk”, and stands for conceptual structures created by the people.
这个“大众分类法”是一个融合了单词“分类”和“大众”，意思就是大众创造的概念结构。
The word "folksonomy" is a blend of the words "taxonomy" and "folk", and stands for conceptual structures created by the people.
这个单词也许不重要，或者说话者为了解释它的意思可能会说些什么。
The word might not be important, or the speaker may say something to explain its meaning.
而当某位女士针织围巾或是毛衣的时候，她所用的口诀“正一针，倒两针（knit one,purl two）”也许挺符合本文的语境。不过，这个例子里的单词purl拼写却完全不同——PU R L ——它的来源有着“旋转（twist）”的意思。
When someone is knitting a scarf or a sweater the phrase knit one purl two mightfit the context, but in this case the purl is a different word spelled P U R Land comes from a source meaning “twist.”
“courage”这个词来源于拉丁文“cor”这个单词，是心脏的意思。
The word 'courage' stems from the Latin word 'cor' - which means heart.
它几乎不可能被准确地翻为我们今天这个时代由这个单词演化而来的道德上的“virtue”（美德）的意思。
It can rarely be rendered accurately by references to our present-day association of the word with moral ‘virtue’.
所有这个单词的衍生词，其结尾bo都与bow意思“弯曲”有关。
All derivations of this word connect the bo ending of the word with the bow meaning “to bend.”
在量子语境中的解释“不”意为把“song”作为在称为语义环境的多维希尔伯特空间中的标志，所有有相同意思的单词都集中在这个标志附近。
Interpreting "not" in the quantum sense means taking "songs" as an arrow in a multidimensional Hilbert space called semantic space, where words with the same meaning are grouped together.
而com的部分曾经写作con，不过并不是prosand cons（利弊，正反）词组中con所代表的“否定”的意思，这个前缀实际上加强了单词的语气。
The com- in comfortable was once a con —but that didn’t mean “not” as in pros and cons, it is a prefix that intensifies the main meaning of the word.
罗马人采用这个名字来命名地中海以外的广阔的水域，因为他们的另一个意思为大水域的单词是mare，而实际上他们称范围更大的水域为mareoceanus。
The Romans adopted this name for the great body of water beyond the Mediterranean and since their other word for a big body of water was mare they in fact called the outer one the mare oceanus.
过了一段时期之后，也就是在500年以前，人们开始用单词bitch称呼男性。不过，它此时的意思更接近于“你这个老东西(you olddog)”之类的说法，而并不像上面的用法那样有侮辱性。
For a while there starting 500 years ago bitch was applied to men as well, although for them it seems to have been more along the lines of "you old dog" and not so insulting.
gymnastics这个单词的本身起源于希腊语gymnos，意思是对运动员来说无群摆设计的装束在那个年代是最低限度，也就是说最少。
The word itself derives from the Greek word gymnos, meaning naked - dress requirements for athletes in those days were minimal, to say the least.
我心想，哈，这个词或许跟饮酒有关，bamboozled的意思有点接近“困惑”，单词拼写还多少包含了booze（喝酒； 含酒精的饮料）。
Aha, I think, maybe the word comes from drinking, I mean to be bamboozled is sort of being confused, and this work sort of contains the word booze.
我心想，哈，这个词或许跟饮酒有关，bamboozled的意思有点接近“困惑”，单词拼写还多少包含了booze（喝酒； 含酒精的饮料）。
Aha, I think, maybe the word comes from drinking, I mean to be bamboozled is sort of being confused, and this work sort of contains the word booze.
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