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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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One possibility is that it is such an old word that it evolved into the roots of both Latin and Germanic languages from an earlier source.

有一种可能是这个词太古老了，以至于进入到了拉丁语以及德语的词根中了。

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But he says he felt the greatest satisfaction when a thirteen-year-old painted the word "gun" and then put a big "X" through it.

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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell I guess across the night, eastward over the plains where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking towards us with the word and would arrive any minute and make us silent.

我们在美国的最高处大声叫喊,我想整个夜晚，在东部平原,随时可能有一个白发老人,向我们走来,让我们安静。

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That old-fashioned concept it's an old-fashioned word.

那是旧观念了,词也是过时的

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But maybe we should also come up with a new word that means what the old word friend used to mean.

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I'll often take an old word that's beautiful like 'sovay' or 'souverian'.

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"Pleb" - an old word given new life by claims Conservative Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell used it to describe police officers in Downing Street - was also shortlisted.

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