| 词汇 | folk etymology |
| 类别 | 英汉双解翻译词典 |
| 释义 | folk etymology 释义 民间词源：将词语转换为与其他更为知名或更易理解的词语有表面关联的过程。 例句 1·Folk etymology has created the cheeseburger and the beanburger, but the first hamburgers were in fact named after the city of Hamburg. 民间词源创造了cheeseburger和beanburger，但最初hamburger一词实际上是以德国汉堡市命名的。 《牛津词典》 2·He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries. 他显然是错了，但几个世纪后，他通俗易通的词源学仍坚实地盘踞这众人的意识之中。 3·Folk -etymology concerns the particular variation phenomenon of lexical meanings during the language evolution. 流俗词源就是语言演变过程中出现的特殊词义变异现象。 |
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