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Charity Catalogues British Place Nicknames 英慈善机构着手编纂地名绰号


Does your local town have a nickname? If so, what does it say about the area and the people who live there?


Many cities are recognised across the world by their unofficial titles. New York is the Big Apple, London is the Big Smoke, and Los Angeles is famously called La La Land.


Now Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance 1 Survey, and the British linguistics 2 charity, the English Project, are launching an interactive 3 project to uncover the pet names people use for local places.


The initiative, which launched last week to coincide with English Language Day, is called Location Lingo 4. It aims to identify the names people use every day, whether it's a term of endearment 5 or a hate name.


The University of Winchester's Professor Bill Lucas is a patron of the English Project. He explains that unofficial place names often show what people think about a place.


"The name that people conjure 6 up or create for a place forms an emotional connection," he says.


"So Basingstoke becomes Amazingstoke, Swindon is known as Swindump and Padstow, hometown of chef Rick Stein, is nicknamed Padstein."


Basingstoke is a town in central England. The local nickname, Amazingstoke, shows the affection that locals seem to have for the area.


Swindon, on the other hand, is sometimes called Swindump, showing that some people think it's a dump. Stanford Le Hope in Essex is called Stanford No Hope by locals. And Padstow in Cornwall is so closely associated with the local celebrity 7 Rick Stein that it's become known as Padstein.


Since launching the online database last week, the creators have already received 3,000 alternative titles for places and landmarks 8.


Some also claim that the project could even have a practical use. Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey's head of research, says the information could be very helpful to the emergency services, for example. "By having the most complete set of nicknames we could help the emergency services quickly locate the right place, and maybe even save lives," he says.


Glossary 词汇表


nickname 绰号/诨名 


mapping agency 规划局 


linguistics 语言学 


an interactive project 互动项目 


pet name 宠爱的(地)名 


initiative 倡议/计划 


to coincide 巧合 


lingo 隐语 


a term of endearment 溺称 


a hate name 有恨意的名字 


a patron 赞助人/支持者 


unofficial 非官方的 


to conjure up 想象出 


an emotional connection 情感上的联系 


on the other hand 而/反之/从另一个角度说 


a dump 垃圾堆 


online 网上 


database 数据库 


landmark 地标 


the emergency services 急救服务(机构)



n.大炮,军械
  • She worked in an ordnance factory during the war.战争期间她在一家兵工厂工作。
  • Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce,ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.军队很缺鞋和衣服,武器供应和药品就更少了。
n.语言学
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • Linguistics is a scientific study of the property of language.语言学是指对语言的性质所作的系统研究。
adj.相互作用的,互相影响的,(电脑)交互的
  • The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
  • This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。
n.语言不知所云,外国话,隐语
  • If you live abroad it helps to know the local lingo.住在国外,学一点当地的语言自有好处。
  • Don't use all that technical lingo try and explain in plain English.别尽用那种专门术语,用普通的词语解释吧。
n.表示亲爱的行为
  • This endearment indicated the highest degree of delight in the old cooper.这个称呼是老箍桶匠快乐到了极点的表示。
  • To every endearment and attention he continued listless.对于每一种亲爱的表示和每一种的照顾,他一直漫不在意。
v.恳求,祈求;变魔术,变戏法
  • I conjure you not to betray me.我恳求你不要背弃我。
  • I can't simply conjure up the money out of thin air.我是不能像变魔术似的把钱变来。
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
n.陆标( landmark的名词复数 );目标;(标志重要阶段的)里程碑 ~ (in sth);有历史意义的建筑物(或遗址)
  • The book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of modern science. 这部著作是现代科学发展史上著名的里程碑之一。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The baby was one of the big landmarks in our relationship. 孩子的出世是我们俩关系中的一个重要转折点。 来自辞典例句
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2-3 tree
according to the merits of each case
aminobenzenestibonic acid
Ampanotoamaizina
antidromal
bastidas
behind the scenes
Behoet's syndrome
British spelling
bus service
bytownite
candidity
cedarhurst
cell-death
ceramic composite
charmed quark
closed shelves
closer reel
competitively-priceds
coppe red galze
countesses
course(of psychological disorder)
cripple leapfrog test
crying up
cylinder flange heating appliance
degelatinized bone dust
degeneration mode
demication
dermoidectomy
dicondylic
doctor's note
down-filled
Dymock
eastman-kodak
fuck me sideways
fulling clay
gamecocks
ganglia plexuum sympathicorum
gas-oil ratio (GOR)
genus aetobatuss
guaranteed mortgage system
Hawdon, L.
Henin-Beaumont
high-frequency concentration meter
impure spectrum
inclined cut
indoor working(grafting)
internet platform
isotopic deposit
jacket handling
key search
khirbat qumran
lipschutz
liquid column chromatography
main ballast Kingston
master stock
mesophilic microorganism
microanalysts
microfluorometer
micropipet
minimum error conical projection
mitzy
myxochondroepitheliomas
non-joinder
nonprespecified
nonprossing
ophthalmofundoscop
overseason
pain phantom limb
Phaneroglossa
phloroglucine
pine tar (oil)
Pioneer Tablemount
plum gougers
postzygapophysis (or caudal articular process)
prismatic compensator
raafat
radio bomb
ring systems
scaptodrosophila clunicrus
Scutellaria oligophlebia
sea-fronts
slide valve reciprocating pump
slow out
stand (microscopic)
stick indoors
stiffness invariant
synenergy
t'ou hu
TBMP
tide motor
timber lead
traveller burnout
trodden down
turkophone
twin-blades
vitasphere
volmax tablet
wear pattern
Xoloitzcuintle
zapateos
zuidema