端午节作为中国传统最重要的节日之一,在民俗语源的阐释中,逐渐被淹没了深层的原义。
The Dragon Boat festival is one of the most important festivals in China, whose profound implications have been somewhat diminished with regard to its etymological explanations.
不仅是因为亨斯利写过一本语源学词典,还因为他恰好就是约西亚·韦奇伍德,那位优质瓷器公司的创始人的孙子。
Not only did Hensleigh write an etymological dictionary he just happened to be the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood, the guy who founded the fine China company.
没有证据表明这两个词有语源关系,不过它们有一定的相似之处。
There is no evidence that these words are etymologically related but there is a certain similarity to them.
英语中,“行走”最常见的同义词就没有如此清晰的语源,这些同义词如跋涉、闲逛与漫步。
Some of the commonest synonyms for walk in the English language (such as trudge, stroll and saunter) have no clear etymological roots.
发表演说的讲台与松鼠、老鼠、海狸之间存在着语源上的联系。
There's an etymological connection between the platform upon which speeches are made and squirrels, rats and beavers.
协调了初期英语的史前语源学。
Highly attuned to the etymological prehistory of the English word infant.
还有什么比询问其创造者来查询一个单词语源更好的方法吗?
How better to check out the etymology of the word than to ask its creator?
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。
Some of it is about etymology, about the nature of words and their casual links with the elements around us.
研究中式英语源头的人表示,许多问题是因为人们偷懒,以及现在流行的一种翻译软件存在缺陷。
Those who study the roots of Chinglish say many examples can be traced to laziness and a flawed but wildly popular translation software.
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。
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.
尽管塞缪尔约翰逊以他1755年出版的词典而出名,但他未获得作为一个语源学家而受到的尊敬。
Although Samuel Johnson was celebrated for his dictionary published in 1755, he didn't have a great reputation as an etymologist.
阿拉伯语源学中的“藏红花色”、“深红色”和“糖果”都是中世纪时期英国与阿拉伯世界进行贸易往来时出现的词汇。
The Arab etymologies of "saffron", "crimson" and "sugar" speak of England's medieval trade with the Arab world.
英语源于日尔曼语系,通过引入法语的善战的法国诺曼第人,以及使用拉丁语的中世纪学者和神职人员的传播得以逐渐扩大。
Basically Germanic, it was expanded by the conquering Normans, who introduced French, and the medieval scholars and clergy, who used Latin.
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。
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.
用欺骗的手段转让或卖掉语源。
Bryson的确是错了,然而该词背后真正的语源学背景似乎更不可信。
Bryson was indeed wrong, but it turns out the real etymology is even less plausible.
正当我开始研究Stutter的语源时,我突然碰到了它的同义词stammer。
As soon as I began looking into the etymology of stutter I bumped up against its synonym stammer.
斯奥迪斯是由18世纪哲学家莱布尼兹创造的,他用斯奥迪斯这个词指代,它的语源表达的哲学思想。
Theodicy is the term coined by the eighteenth-century philosopher Leibniz, and he applied this term theodicy to just that kind of philosophical sentiment that's implied by its etymology.
Liberman先生答复说,直到十九世纪早期这两种用法都还是混合使用的,但以“- or”的拼写在英语语源中居多。
Mr Liberman replies that usage was mixed, with -or prevailing in many English sources, until the early nineteenth century.
这个术语源于盐水这个单词,盐水的意思是盐和水的混合物。
"The term comes from the word" saline "— which means a mixture of salt and water."
民俗语汇真正的语源是其据以产生的民俗形态或民俗事象,民俗语汇的文献语源是对其“流”的记载。
The real derivation of the vocabulary of folklore is forms of folklore or folklore matters, based on which it came into being.
消除误会。这个习语源于这样一个事实,当空气中烟雾弥漫时,是很难看到东西的。
Clear the air. This idiom comes from the fact that, when there is smoke or fog in the air, it is difficult to see.
而后我们就会想起,现代英语文字语源学的根源。
And we're reminded of the etymological root of our modern English word career.
蝴蝶常常被看做快乐的象征。可语源学考察的结果全是快乐的反义词。
Butterflies are usually objects of delight but the proposed etymology for the name comes in various flavors of whatever the opposite of delight is.
关于嬉皮士的语源是有争议的。
从第一章到第四章对道路行走字意义体系的四个大类分别进行本义考证与语源义的探求。
From chapter one to chapter four researched the original meaning and the etymological meaning of the four classifications of the walking words 'meaning system.
从第一章到第四章对道路行走字意义体系的四个大类分别进行本义考证与语源义的探求。
From chapter one to chapter four researched the original meaning and the etymological meaning of the four classifications of the walking words 'meaning system.
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