A phrasal verb refers to a verb combined with an adverb or a preposition, or sometimes both, to give a new meaning.

短语动词指的是动词与副词或介词，或者有时两者结合，赋予新的意义。

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The old term has taken on a new meaning.

这个旧词有了新的含义。

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Within 100 years we see a new meaning to placebo.

在过往的100年里，我们看到了placebo有了一个新的含义。

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By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

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A new concept came up which is Neurogenesis or Neuroplasticity, meaning our brain actually changes and transforms.

一个新的概念叫做神经形成或者神经可塑性，是指我们的大脑实际上会改变和转变。

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While the New Critics, in a variety of ways, insist that form is meaning, form is content and so on, they're still not really breaking down the distinction between form and content.

新批评主义者们认为，形式就是意义，形式就是内容，但是他们还是没有打破,形式和内容的区别。

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It uses four electric motors, one driving each wheel, and brings a new meaning to four-wheel drive.

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The technique could be used to prevent fraud as well as provide a new meaning to the term 'paper trail'.

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One bank branch has all of its counters coated in anti-bacterial chemicals (a new meaning for the term money laundering?).

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