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| 释义 | 〔Hoosier〕As the fame of Indiana basketball grows ever greater,perhaps a larger number of people have become curious about the origins of the wordHoosier, the nickname for a native or resident of Indiana. As more than one of the curious has discovered,the origins are rather opaque.The most likely possibility is thatHoosier is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland,a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large.The transition betweenhoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance ofHoosier meaning "Indiana resident" is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in theDictionary of Americanisms, including "a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,”reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana.随着印第安纳州篮球的名声越来越响，也许很多人对Hoosier， 印第安纳州人或定居者的别称这个词的来源感到好奇。 正如若干好奇者所发现的那样，其来源非常隐晦。最大的可能性是Hoosier 是 hoozer 的变体， 这是记录于坎伯兰的英格兰方言，19世纪后期英格兰西北部以前的一个郡，用来指特别巨大的东西。Hoozer 和 Hoosier 之间的过渡并不清楚。 意思是“印第安那州居住者”的Hoosier 的首次记载是在1826年； 但是可能该词的解释后来收录于美国俗语词典 中， 包括“一个庞大的、粗壮的、野蛮的种类或个体；拓荒者，乡巴佬，庄稼人，”可能反映了它在落户印第安那之前所有的用法〔crotoxin〕A crystalline neurotoxin found in the venom of the rattlesnake,Crotalus terrificus. 响尾蛇神经毒素：在响尾蛇，如恐怖响尾蛇 毒液中所发现的结晶状神经毒素 〔that〕The relics found were those of an earlier time.所发现的遗迹是较早的年代〔Io〕One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the ninth in distance from the planet. It was first sighted by Galileo.木卫一：木星四颗最明亮的卫星之一，距木星的距离排为第九。它首先为伽利略所发现〔explore〕To search into or travel in for the purpose of discovery:勘探：为有所发现而进行的探测或旅行：〔Callisto〕One of the four brightest satellites of Jupiter and the sixth in distance from the planet. Originally sighted by Galileo, it is the largest planetary satellite.卡利斯托卫星：木星最亮的四颗卫星之一，是距木星第六远的卫星。最初为伽利略所发现，它是最大的行星卫星〔chlorophyll〕Any of a group of related green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms, especially:叶绿素：在光合的有机体中所发现的一组互为关联的绿色素中任何一种，尤指： |
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