THE term “bargain basement” was supposedly coined to describe the first outlet of Filene’s Basement, an American discount shopping chain whose bags scream “I just got a bargain!” in large red letters.

“廉价地下商店”这个概念恐怕是用来描述第一家法林地下商店的，这是一家美国折扣连锁商店，在其的纸袋上醒目的用大红色写着“我只要廉价的”。

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I was being interviewed recently and talking about a certain eponym that had morphed after it was first coined.

最近，在接受了一个采访时，我谈到了一个特定的 名祖 （eponym）——它被创造出来以后，就彻底变了味。

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Did you know that it was American Soldiers who coined the term "French Fries", when they tasted them for the first time in Belgium during World War I?

你知道吗，炸薯条(French fries)这个名词是由美国大兵在第一次世界大战的比利时第一次品尝这种食物的时候创造出来的。

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And I think it was perhaps a more appropriate word twenty years ago when it was coined than it is now.

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Outside the SOEs, I see little evidence of the wasted investment I saw in Thailand at the time the phrase "golf course capitalism" was coined--before the Asian crisis back in 1997.

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