namesake
namesake 英 [ˈneɪmseɪk] 美 [ˈnemˌsek]
n. 名义；同名物；同名的人
名词复数:namesakes
- If your parents named you after your Great Uncle Abner, then you are his namesake. The two of you share a very nice name.
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- n. 名义；同名物；同名的人
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1. But at this point Iceland seems, if anything, to be doing better than its near-namesake.
但从现在来看，无论如何，冰岛似乎比它名字相似的兄弟要做得好些。
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2. The college boasts alumni like author Jonathan Swift and philosopher George Berkeley, the namesake of what is now the University of California - Berkeley.
学院拥有像作者乔纳森 · 斯威夫特和哲学家乔治 · 贝克莱，现在是加州大学伯克利分校的同名的校友。
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3. Well, I told my young namesake about it and I said to him that if he'd do it I'd give him a job.
于是，我把这事告诉了那位与我同姓的年轻人，并对他说，要是他能游过去，我就给他一个差使。
- namesake (n.) "person named for the sake of someone," 1640s, probably originally (for the) name's sake.
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