folk etymology

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英漢雙解

1.	民間詞源；俗詞源學a process by which a word is changed, for example because of a mistaken belief that it is related to another word, or to make a foreign word sound more familiar

Folk etymology has created the cheeseburger and the beanburger, but the first hamburgers were in fact named after the city of Hamburg.

民間詞源創(chuàng)造了 cheeseburger 和 beanburger，但最初 hamburger 一詞實際上是以德國漢堡市命名的。

英漢解釋

na.	1. 民俗語源,通俗詞源;文字的通俗變化

英英解釋

n.	1. the replacement of an unfamiliar word or form by a more familiar one. An example is the replacement of girasole with Jerusalem in Jerusalem artichoke. 2. an idea about the origin of a word that is generally believed but is incorrect.

例句

He was surely wrong, but his ~~folk~~ ~~etymology~~ is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.

他顯然是錯了，但幾個世紀后，他通俗易通的詞源學仍堅實地盤踞這眾人的意識之中。

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