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| 释义 | 〔sheepshead〕A freshwater drum(Aplodinotus grunniens) commonly found from the Great Lakes to Texas. 淡水石首鱼：从五大湖区到得克萨斯地区都很常见的一种淡水石首鱼（淡水石首鱼） 〔insignia〕From the singular use ofinsignia comes the plural insignias, which is also common in reputable writing.The Latin singularinsigne is rare and may strike some readers as pedantic.从insignia 的单数用法衍生到复数用法 inisiguias ， 这种用法在规范的写作中也很常见。拉丁语的单数形式insigue 很罕见， 这可能会使一些读者认为是在卖弄学问〔parasomnia〕Any of several disorders that frequently interfere with sleep, occurring especially among children and including sleepwalking, night terrors, and bed-wetting.拟梦症：几种常常干扰睡眠的生理机能失调症中的任意一种，尤其在儿童间很常见且有夜游、夜惊和尿床现象〔gumbo〕A fine silty soil, common in the southern and western United States, that forms an unusually sticky mud when wet.坚硬粘土：一种细而粘稠的土壤，在美国南部和西部很常见，通常湿润时形成粘糊的泥浆〔scrofula〕A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. Also called struma 淋巴结核，瘰疬：一种淋巴腺结核，尤指在颈部，在小孩中很常见，往往由患这种病的奶牛的没有经过消毒的牛奶传染 也作 struma〔help〕A common use ofhelp is exemplified by the sentence 关于help 的一个很常见的用法， 下面这个句子提供了一个很好的例子： 〔legend〕The wordslegend and legendary have come to be used in recent years to refer to any person or achievement whose fame promises to be particularly enduring, even if its renown is created more by the media than by oral tradition.Strictly speaking,there is nothinglegendary about the accomplishments of a major-league baseball star or the voice of a famous opera singer, since their accomplishments are documented in an extensive public record.But this new usage is common journalistic hyperboleand in such contexts is acceptable to 55 percent of the Usage Panel.近些年来，legend 和 legendary 这两个词已逐渐被用来指有希望成为享有持久名声的人物或成就， 即使它的名声是通过大众传媒炒作而不是人们口碑而取得的。从严格意义上说，对于棒球联合总会的棒球明星所取得的成绩或者一位著名的歌剧歌唱家的声音来说，根本就没有什么事情可以说是“传奇的” ， 因为他们的成就广为人知。但是，这种新用法是一种很常见的新闻夸张手法。用法委员会中55%的人认为可以在这种上下文中使用〔party〕Party is unexceptionable when used to refer to a participant in a social arrangement, as inShe was not named as a party in the conspiracy. It is this sense that underlies the legal use of the term,as when one speaks of theparties to a contract. The legal use has in turn led to the presence of the word in many fixed expressions,such asinjured party and third party. Butparty is also widely used as a general substitute for person, as inWould all parties who left packages at the desk please reclaim their property. This usage has been established for many centuries,but in the Victorian era it came to be associated with the language of the semieducated(theOxford English Dictionary describes it as "shoppy"), and it has been the subject of many later criticisms.This use ofparty may have been reinforced by its modern adoption by telephone operators. In other contexts,when used in earnest,it may be perceived as a superfluous variant forperson. But the jocular use of the term is well established,particular in references such asa wise old party. Party 用作指一项社会活动的参与者是很常见的， 如她不是这一阴谋的参与者。 正是这一意义构成了这一词的法律用法，如人们说及 parties to a contract 。 这种法律用法反过来又使得这一词出现在许多固定的短语中，如injured party 和 third party。 但party 也被广泛地用于对 person 的泛称， 如在所有将包裹放在桌子上的人请来认领他们的东西。 这种用法已确立了许多个世纪，但在维多利亚时代，它开始与受过部分教育的人的语言联系起来（牛津英语词典 把它描述为“三句话不离本行的”）， 并且它已成为后来许多批判家批评的对象。Party 的这一用法由于话务员的经常采用而被强化了。 在其它的上下文中，当用于严肃的场合时，它可以被视作是person 不必要的变体。 但这一词诙谐的用法确立已久，尤其在提及如一个精明的老人 时 〔swordtail〕A small, brightly colored, live-bearing freshwater fish(Xiphophorus helleri) of Central America, having a long, tapering extension of the caudal fin in the male and popular in home aquariums. 剑尾鱼：中美洲的一种颜色鲜艳、胎生的小型淡水鱼，（剑尾鱼） ，雄性的尾鳍很长，并呈逐渐变细状，在家庭的养鱼池中很常见 |
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