folk-etymology
- 1. 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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- 2. 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。
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- 3. 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。
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- 4. 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。
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