一百年前，“有色人种”是指代非洲裔美国人的典型方式。
One hundred years ago, "Colored" was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent.
随着时间的推移，人们开始用“餐馆”这个词来指代卖汤的地方，而不是汤本身。
Over time, people began to use the word "restaurant" to refer to a place selling soup rather than the soup itself.
我们的语言是有影响的，我们指代事物的方式很重要，因为这影响我们的思考方式，进而影响我们的行动。
Our language makes a difference, and how we refer to things matters because it affects our thinking and therefore our actions.
1903年，当发现有两个不同的名字指代这一恐龙时，分类学家们将它重新命名为Apatosaurus。
Taxonomists renamed it Apatosaurus in 1903 when it was discovered that two different names referred to the same dinosaur.
格兰诺威特是第一个造出“弱连接”一词的人，他用此词来指代人们不太亲密的相识——换句话说，就是“朋友的朋友”。
It was Granovetter who first coined the term "weak-ties", which he used to refer to people's loose acquaintances—in other words, friends-of-friends.
论文一词也用于指代论说文或类似作品的一般主张。
The term thesis is also used to refer to the general claim of an essay or similar work.
确定代词清晰地指代了相关名词。
但“法人”这个词，更加广义，也指代公司。
But when we say "person," it also — that's more general — it also includes corporation.
这里的udr一词通常用来指代返回值的函数。
Here the term UDR is used generically to refer to functions that return a value.
Loo指代厕所，但bathroom指代浴室。
'Loo' for the toilet, but 'bathroom' for a room you clean yourself in.
服务这一术语已经被业界被用来指代过很多事物了。
The term service has been used in the industry to denote a variety of things.
要理解一个名词，就必须熟悉那个名词指代的东西。
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
sucharguments是指代上一段提出的那些理由。
“白色联邦”曾被用于指代澳大利亚、新西兰和加拿大。
The “White Commonwealth” used to mean Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
比如，巴黎可以指法国巴黎，也可以指代美国的巴黎市。
For example, 'Paris' could refer to the city in France or the city in the USA (also it could be the name of an infamous socialite).
曾经另有一个单词可以指代现在被我们称为窗户的东西。
There had been another word that English men and women used to describe the things we now call windows.
这个宏的第一个参数是指代正在处理的特定按钮的标识符。
The first parameter to the macro is an identifier referring to the specific button being handled.
从拉丁语我们很容易看到，女孩这个词同时也指代洋娃娃。
In Latin it's easy to see how the word for girl might be applied also to a doll.
如果需要在查询中使用引用，则使用它作为指代引用的名称。
This is the name that will be used to refer to the reference if you wanted to use the reference in a query.
总的来说，这个符号总是清楚的指代，这件事而不是那件事。
It's not that other thing, but, generally speaking, the point about a sign is that it's not any other thing.
在本文中，我只是用紧凑表达式指代使用一个或多个选项的策略。
In this article, I'll just use compact expression to refer to policies using one or more of these options.
这词和另外一个词“遗留”类似-微软用来指代所有非微软软件。
It's like that other term, legacy, that Microsoft USES to refer to all non-Microsoft software.
现在这个词指代仿制品、不合格产品或简易制品，如改装汽车等。
Now, the term refers to all manner of knock-off, substandard or improvised goods, such as these makeshift vehicles.
注意：用译文这个词，代替事实上的目标，来指代已翻译的文件。
Note: the term translation is used, in place of the de-facto term target, to refer to a translated document.
注意：用原文这个词，代替事实上的源，来指代所要翻译的文件。
Note: the term original is used, in place of the de-facto term source, to refer to a document to be translated.
有时，我们通过名字来指代某物：“Shakespeare”。
Sometimes werefer to that same thing by a name:“Shakespeare.”
(肘尺)在拉丁语中也曾被用来指代手肘或者从手肘到指尖的距离。
Cubitum was also used in Latin to describe the elbow or the distance from the elbow to the finger-tips.
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