很快，这个词就被用来指称食品废弃物，不到150年，它就可以指代任何废弃物了。
Quickly the word began to be applied to any sort of food waste and within 150 years began to mean any refuse at all.
这个曾使人敬畏的词如何变成几乎毫无意义的措辞并被用来指称任何甚至只是稍微有点像样的事物？
How did this once-awe-inspiring word become a nearly meaningless bit of verbiage referring to anything even mildly good?
臣民要为城邦服兵役，曾经用来指称这六个等级的单词和另一个意为“征召”（士兵）的词具有相同的词源。
Part of what a person owed the state was military service and the word used to describe these six groups evolved out of the same word used to mean a soldier was being “called up.”
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