folk etymology

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英汉双解

1.	民间词源；俗词源学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。

英汉解释

na.	1. 民俗语源,通俗词源;文字的通俗变化

英英解释

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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