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《英语词汇学》第一次作业参考答案 1. translation loans: Translation loans are words and expressions formed from the material already existing in the English language but according to patterns taken from another language by way of literal morpheme-for-morpheme translation. Examples are “land-reform”, “mutual-aid” team, “national bourgeoisie”, etc. 2. relative synonyms: Relative synonyms denote different shades of meaning or different degrees of a given quality, e.g. beautiful ― good-looking ― handsome ― pretty. 3. specialization of meaning: Specialization of meaning is a process whereby a word of wide meaning