- 1同名的人、同名者
A namesake is another person who has the same name as someone — often a more famous person. 'I have a namesake in the national team' means there is a well-known player with your name. Though actually, English speakers do not all point the word the same way. Some older writing uses namesake for the person who was named AFTER someone (the child is the grandfather's namesake). Other people use it the other way round, or for anyone with the same name, even when nobody was named after anybody. In everyday talk, 'my namesake' usually just means 'the other person called what I am called'. It is a normal noun: not slang, not stiff. You will meet it in stories, newspapers, and polite conversation. People almost never use it as a verb.
組成name + sake. From the old phrase 'for (one's) name's sake' — for the sake of the name. That phrase appears in Bible translations as a rendering of a Hebrew idiom meaning 'to protect one's reputation', or possibly 'vouched for by one's reputation'. A familiar example is Psalm 23. The English noun dates from the mid-1600s.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
namesakenoun/ˈneɪmseɪk/
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An entity that lends its name to another entity.
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An entity that lends its name to another entity.
- The statesman Winston Churchill has a namesake, the American novelist Winston Churchill.
- Chris Evans, British DJ and media manipulator extraordinaire, is not to be confused with Chris Evans, Australia's shadow minister for family services, nor with Chris Evans, the late train robber of the wilds of west California, or indeed potentially hundreds of other namesakes. One unquestionable aspect of this Chris Evans is that he is unique.
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An entity that lends its name to another entity.
- Bill Sr's namesake, Bill Jr, is 30 years younger.
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An entity that lends its name to another entity.
- Bill Jr's namesake, Bill Sr, is 30 years older.
- It is the only citation from 1902, and was clearly added to the manuscript at a late stage, being only one of two examples of the dictionary’s namesake actually discovered by Crooke.
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Something (especially a ship, a building, or a medical condition, symptom, or sign) that is named after someone or something.
namesakeverb/ˈneɪmseɪk/
- 1
To name (somebody) after somebody else.
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