外来词 meaning in English
alien word
loanword
Examples
- Some of the long words in english dictionaries are imports from other languages .
英语词典中有些长词系外来词。 - In recent times the most striking exports have been in the vocabulary of lacrosse and hockey .
在近代最突出的外来词是有关长曲棍球和曲棍球运动方面的词汇。 - The foreign word "romance" has been taken into the chinese language and means promiscuous sexual relations .
“浪漫”这一外来词已为中国语言所吸收，但是，其涵意却是混乱的两性关系。 - So, for example, "yoghurt" is virtually a recent addition to the language, even though it first appeared in english as a borrowing from turkish in 1625 .
所以，如yoghurt（酸乳酩），实际上是最近才加入英语的一个词，尽管作为来自土耳其语的外来词，它在1625年便在英语中第一次出现了。