calque
/kalk/US // kælk //UK // (kælk) //
口语,口音,口水仗,口水战
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n.名词 noun
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- : a loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of the native language, as German halbinsel for peninsula.
- : loanshift.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
calqued, cal·quing.
- : to form through the process of loan translation.
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