In old English these were called eyethurls and since thurl is an old word for hole, this means eye holes.

在古英语里，它叫eyethurl, thurl是hole(洞)的古老的写法，整个词的意思是窥视孔。

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JK Rowling apparently chose the name Dumbledore, which is an old word for "bumblebee", because she "imagined him walking around humming to himself" .

“Dumbledore”是“bumblebee”的旧词，J.K.罗琳给这个人物取名为邓布利多是因为在她的想象中，邓布利多是个“会常常自言自语的人”。

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It turns out that in Old English there was another word for "duck" that does sound more like the scientific Latin, that Old English word was ende.

后来我又在古英语中找到有一个词ende，它的意思也是指鸭子，但是读起来和那个拉丁学名十分相像。

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Here are some expressions about plain old bugs, another word for insects.

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