Although many of Hills dale's students came from wealthy households, by the late 1990 average test scores were sliding and it had earned the unaffectionate nickname (綽號) "Hills jail.
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They called each other by unaffectionate nicknames.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
N-COUNT
綽號;諢號;外號
A nickname is an informal name for someone or something.
例句
Red got his nickname for his red hair.“紅毛”的綽號源于他的紅頭發。
VERB
給…起綽號;把…俗稱為
If you nickname someone or something, you give them an informal name.
例句
When he got older I nicknamed him Little Alf...當他大一點時，我給他起了個“小阿爾夫”的綽號。Which newspaper was once nicknamed The Thunderer?哪家報紙一度被稱為“怒吼者”？
英漢詞典釋義
n.
綽號, 諢名; 昵稱
She called me by my nickname.她叫我的外號。Rob is a nickname of Robert.Rob 是 Robert的昵稱。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name);
"Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph""Henry's nickname was Slim"
2. a descriptive name for a place or thing;
"the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"