Can you see why his name was changed into a verb meaning "to tease or torment by arousing desire”?

你知道为什么他的名字变成了一个动词，意思是“通过激起欲望来戏弄或折磨”吗？

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They all want to know about its unusual name. Okefenokee is a Miccosukee Indian word meaning land of trembling earth.

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Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

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The name "Hyflux" comes from a technical term meaning the higher the "flux" of the membrane, the better its cleaning ability.

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"Poilu", a word meaning hairy or tough, is the affectionate name given since Napoleonic times to French foot soldiers.

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The trademark application for the tablet was turned down because the name was "merely descriptive" and did not create a unique meaning, it said.

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