acronym
acronym 英 [ˈækrənɪm] 美 ['ækrənɪm]
n. 首字母缩略词
名词复数:acronyms
- Are the members of your after-school club tripping over the name Student Parachuting League & Aerial Team? Why not use each word's first letter to make an acronym, and call the club SPLAT? There, that’s better.
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- n. 首字母缩略词
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1. However, the standards were not written in such a way that a simple acronym on the product box will ensure or even suggest compatibility.
但是，编写这些标准时并没有说产品包装盒上简单的首字母缩写就能够确保甚至暗示其兼容性。
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2. They engineered an acronym that would fit the situation, in this case trying to capture spam robots. They made up the title so the acronym would come out cleverly.
他们设计了这样一个符合情况的缩略词，为的是捕获垃圾邮件机器人。为了使这一缩写闲得精巧些，他们想出了这样的名字。
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3. Until you are dead! — provided someone could figure out what the acronym might stand for.
直到你死了！ -——只要有人能想出什么样的缩写可以代表它。
- acronym (n.) word formed from the first letters of a series of words, 1943, American English coinage from acro- + -onym "name" (abstracted from homonym; ultimately from PIE root *no-men- "name"). With the exception of cabalistic esoterica and acrostic poetry, this way of forming words was exceedingly uncommon before 20c. For distinction of usage (regretfully ignored on this site), see initialism.
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