Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.

词源学只能问，为什么缝纫时使用的一个小杯状装置被称为顶针，但它却是在中指上使用的。

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The etymology of oyster may not have anything to do with noise, but it is true that oysters have to some extent been associated with quiet.

单词oyster的词源也许与噪音没有任何关系，但从某种程度而言，人们长久以来的确把牡蛎和安静联系到了一起。

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Merriam Webster is even more strange in tracing its etymology to a French word for a flat round cake.

但韦氏大词典更为奇怪，它将galoshes的词源追溯到一个意为“平圆蛋糕”的法语单词上了。

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So I was pretty surprised to find a fairly rich vein of etymology on this one.

关于galoshes这个词，存在相当丰富的词源发展脉络，这让我感到非常意外。

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Though the "soaked bread" etymology appears in a few sources the OED simply says it's from Spanish.

尽管“泡汤面包”的词根在《牛津词典》里出现过几次，但它仅仅写到这个词来自西班牙语。

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The OED is a little speculative in its etymology but it certainly has more information for goal than for many other words.

尽管OED对goal的词根有一定推测成分，但它就这个词提供的信息肯定比不少其他单词丰富多了。

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Although there isn't authoritative evidence to back this story up the etymology of pretzel tends to support at least part of the story.

尽管人们并没有权威的证据来证实这个故事，但至少它还是部分得到了pretzel词源的支持。

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Though I don't use the word impute too often its etymology is in some ways consistent with the answer to David's question.

尽管我不常使用impute，它的词源在某些方面倒与大卫所提出问题的答案很吻合。

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It follows, as predicted, that we need a look at the artifact to justify the etymology

看来，就像刚才预测的那样，我们需要看到实物才能为词源学辩护。

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So the etymology of hooker the prostitute rests on the criminality of prostitution, not on the bad reputation of Joe Hooker.

所以，意为妓女的单词hooker并不是源于乔·胡克尔的坏名声，而是源于卖淫这一犯罪行为。

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He dives into the etymology of words, and then relates these discoveries to far-flung biographical and historical fact.

他深入研究各词汇之词源，然后将这些发现同遥不相及的作者生平或历史事件联系起来。

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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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Interpreting without real understanding is a common error of interpretation of ancient texts in our searching for the etymology .

望文生义是语源探求研究中最常见的一种错误的训诂学方法。

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Now that you've read through all of that here's the much simplified etymology of the word simple.

现在你已经读完了，下面说单词simple的更简化的词源。

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So now that I've educated myself, here's the etymology .

因此我受教了，这是它的词源。

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With an etymology that boils down to "without an owner" one might think such a name would encourage car theft.

由于这个词有“没有主人”的意味，人们可以将这个名字理解为鼓励偷车。

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So these roller bags that make it easier to lug your junk around airports are in keeping with etymology stretching back more than 600 years.

有了这种装有滚轮的箱包，你在机场就能轻松地拖着大堆杂物四处行走，这种形象也和它600多年前的词源相一致。

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Like too many words that sound so delicious the etymology of ramshackle is a little unclear.

有些词听上去似乎一清二楚，实际上词源却模模糊糊。ramshackle便是其中之一。

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Some of it is about etymology , about the nature of words and their casual links with the elements around us.

有一些故事是关于语源学的，关于语言的本质以及那些词语与我们周围的元素的偶然联系。

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It isn't just conceptual, the etymology of behave really does point back to the word have.

这不仅仅是概念上的关系，behave的词源确实可以追溯到单词have。

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This prompted me to look up the etymology of the word swear and I'll get to that in a moment.

这起小事件促使我去查询swear（咒骂）这个词的词根，一会儿就来讨论这个问题。

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As soon as I began looking into the etymology of stutter I bumped up against its synonym stammer.

正当我开始研究Stutter的语源时，我突然碰到了它的同义词stammer。

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These meanings are made more evident in looking at the etymology for these words.

只要查一下这些单词的词源，它们的意思就会变得更加明晰。

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At first recruits were only military and the main reason the military needed recruits is actually tied up in the word's etymology .

最初，新丁（recruits）只是针对军队而言的，而军队需要新兵的主要原因是与这个词的词源紧密联系在一起的。

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I'll save the worst till last and before I tell you I'll just touch on the word butter and its etymology .

最刺激的就留到最后说吧。让我先来告诉你“butter”这个词和它的词源。

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