palmetto
palmetto 英 [pæl'metəʊ] 美 [pæl'mɛto]
n. 美洲蒲葵（棕榈科植物）
名词复数:palmettos
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- n. 美洲蒲葵（棕榈科植物）
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1. An alternative treatment that has become popular is an herbal pill--saw palmetto--used by millions of men in the United States to treat BPH.
现在有一种方法，即服用一种名叫“前列通”（Saw palmetto)的草药来治疗前列腺炎，而这种方法也被成百万美国男人使用，用以治疗BPH。
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2. “She didn’t have insurance,” Ms. Rothenburgh’s mother, Gwen Lewis, of palmetto, Ga., said. “She made too much money, they took her Medicaid away from her — she made $7 too much a month.
“她没有保险，” Rothenburgh住在佐治亚州Palmetto的母亲Gwen Lewis说,“她挣了太多钱，他们把她的医疗补助拿走了——她每个月多挣了7美元。
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3. Her stepfather, Jim Lewis, brought some of her furniture back to palmetto — her dressing table, her entertainment center — and tried to create a room that would feel very much like home to her.
她的继父Jim Lewis把一些她的家具带回了Palmetto——她的梳妆台，她的娱乐中心——Jim Lewis想为她把房间布置得像家一样。
- palmetto (n.) 1580s, from Spanish palmito "dwarf fan palm tree," diminutive of palma "palm tree," from Latin palma (see palm (n.2)). The suffix was subsequently Italianized. The Palmetto Flag was an emblem of South Carolina after secession (1860); the state was called Palmetto State from at least 1837.
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