There he lays out a few potential etymologies for flatter, one of which is a Latin root meaning to "make big" as flattery would do to one's ego.

他在书中列出几个可能的词源，其中一个拉丁词源意指“使增大”，正如奉承(flattery)使人的自尊心膨胀。

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We won't go into the root meaning of that word…

我们不讨论这个词的词根含义…

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This approach is based on a root with a prefix or suffix, so as to constitute a new term, and with the root meaning is closely related to, such words would be known as derivatives.

这种方法就是在一个词根的基础上加上一个前缀或后缀，从而构成另一个新词，并且与该词根的含义有着密切的联系，此类词便称为派生词。

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The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."

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Now, the Hebrew word "holy" has a root meaning of separate. Separate.

现在，这个希伯来词语“神圣“，根源的意思是独立。

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And I was talking about the fact that for Deuteronomy the election of Israel, God's election of Israel means or entails the idea that Israel is a holy people, holy in the sense of separated to God that root meaning of holiness which means to be separated from the common or the ordinary.

我上次提到了《申命记》中的一个事实,以色列被选择，上帝选择以色列意味着,以色列是神圣的民族，对于上帝他们是分离的,这便是神圣的根本意义,意味着与一般和普通分离。

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But she later stumbled while attempting to spell "melocoton, " a word meaning a peach grafted on a quince root stalk.

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If OJ made one thing perfectly clear, it's that the word "reason, " at the root of "reasonable doubt" has lost all meaning in the US court system.

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So Nardelli "tagged" the Wrangler--meaning engineers had only seven days to identify the root cause and solution.

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