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。
There's a deeper joke in the etymology though.
不过，除此以外，还有个词源学上更加隐晦的笑话。
So what does all this have to do with etymology?
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢？
So the real etymology is that it appeared, evidently as slang, in around 1700.
真正的词源似乎是这样的：它作为俚语出现在1700年左右。
The etymology of the word harbinger is tied up in that “forerunner” meaning.
harbinger这个词的来源和“先行者”是联系在一起的。
These meanings are made more evident in looking at the etymology for these words.
只要查一下这些单词的词源，它们的意思就会变得更加明晰。
The first time I looked at the etymology of the word hurricane was in August of 2005.
我第一次看到单词”hurricane”的词源是在2005年八月.
The etymology of the word proclivity is ironically appropriate for this flavor of usage.
讽刺的是，proclivity的词源恰好与后面那种用法吻合。
Iron is not manganese or magnesium but these metals and magnet all share a similar etymology.
铁不是锰或镁，但是这些金属却和magnet(磁铁)有相似的词源。
Now that you've read through all of that here's the much simplified etymology of the word simple.
现在你已经读完了，下面说单词simple的更简化的词源。
As soon as I began looking into the etymology of stutter I bumped up against its synonym stammer.
正当我开始研究Stutter的语源时，我突然碰到了它的同义词stammer。
In the OED sometimes you can see an etymology traced through words that have a little star beside them.
我曾经提到过，在OED里，你可以看到某个单词在回溯词源的过程中，经历了一些词的演变，在那些词的旁边标着一颗小星星。
Some of it is about etymology, about the nature of words and their casual links with the elements around us.
有一些故事是关于语源学的，关于语言的本质以及那些词语与我们周围的元素的偶然联系。
Both the word continent and incontinent have a similar etymology and share their root with the words contain and continuous.
continent和incontinent两个词有相似的词源，他们的词根还和contain和continuous两个词相同。
The OED is a little speculative in its etymology but it certainly has more information for goal than for many other words.
尽管OED对goal的词根有一定推测成分，但它就这个词提供的信息肯定比不少其他单词丰富多了。
The Merriam Webster Unabridged Dictionary is the only source that I found that points further back than Latin in its etymology.
在我所能找到的资料里，只有《未删节版韦氏词典》能指出该单词在拉丁语之前的词源。
So these roller bags that make it easier to lug your junk around airports are in keeping with etymology stretching back more than 600 years.
有了这种装有滚轮的箱包，你在机场就能轻松地拖着大堆杂物四处行走，这种形象也和它600多年前的词源相一致。
This is much more presentable, with quite satisfying lists of definitions, and examples of the word in context. A little bit of etymology, too.
这更像样，有令人满意的定义单、单词在上下文中的例子，以及一点点词源。
You might think that being subtly foolish is an oxymoron in itself, yet this definition goes a long way to uncover the etymology of oxymoron.
也许你觉得“敏锐的愚蠢”本身就是一种矛盾修饰法，不过这个定义对于发现oxymoron的语源大有帮助。
A dictionary may have several different meanings to a word; it may have sample sentences or citations in which the word was used; it may have an etymology.
词典中可能对一个词会有几种不同的解释，它可能会有一些例句和在一些文中该词被运用的引用，还可能会涉及词源部分。
Since there is no museum of etymology or even a center for it and since dictionaries rarely dwell on such details, a post to explain the situation is needed.
由于词源学没有博物馆甚至也没有什么研究中心，词典也很少在这等细节上纠缠，在这里说明情况是必要的。
However, when I look at the etymology of the word lord there is a certain accuracy to that line in the Lord’s Prayer that goes “give us this day our daily bread.”
不过，在查阅这个单词词源的时候，我还真地发现，上面那种表示虔诚的说法是有一定的道理——在上帝的信徒中，很久以来都流传着这么一句话：“我们日用的饮食（daily bread），今日赐给我们。”
Thus the activity and motion that we might associate with frolicking points right back through the meaning of “high spirits” to a leaping source for the etymology.
所以，这种我们认为与嬉闹欢快的含义相关联的动作，以词源学分析，会从“精神亢奋”一直追溯到表示“跳，蹦”的一个词源上。
This etymology has the advantage that the word ransacked is historically related to houses or buildings and not shoes and ramshackle similarly applies to buildings.
这个词源上的推论更加站得住脚，因为ransacked从历史上来看，是与房屋而不是与鞋子有关，而ramshackle也和建筑有联系。
It turns out that entire etymology research departments with vast databases at world leading universities don't really have much idea either so I'm in good company.
结果，那些世界领先大学里拥有海量数据库的语源学研究机构也说不出个所以然，真是吾道不孤啊。
Etymology, it appears, has the means to prove that thimbles were at one time meant for the thumb.
词源学看起来有办法证明顶针一词曾经指拇指。
Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.
词源学只能问，为什么缝纫时使用的一个小杯状装置被称为顶针，但它却是在中指上使用的。
Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.
词源学只能问，为什么缝纫时使用的一个小杯状装置被称为顶针，但它却是在中指上使用的。
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