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英语词汇学
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Words which were used to designate one thing but later changed to mean something else have experienced the process of semantic_____. For example, pitiful originally meant "full ofpity", but now has changed to "deserving pity".
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Trade union means differently between western countries and China, which indicates that _____context may affect the meaning of words.
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Being phrases or sentences, each idiom consists of more than one word, but each is a semantic _____. For example, till the cows come home means "forever" and functions as an adverb.
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A Chinese-English Dictionary(1995)boasts of the_____of the English equivalents it provides for its Chinese items,as in the example that 布衣素食 is rendered as"coarse clothes and simple fare"instead of"wear cotton clothes and eat vegetablefood"
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vocabulary
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stem
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sense
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narrowing (of meaning)
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metonymy
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Which of the following is true about sound and meaning?