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词汇 false-friend
释义 false friend
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌfɒls ˈfrend/ us /ˌfɑːls ˈfrend/
a word that is often confused with a word in another language with a different meaning because the two words look or sound similar: (另一语言中的某个词的)形近异义词,同形异义词,同音异义字
The French word "actuellement" and the English word "actually" are false friends.法语单词 actuellement 和英语单词 actually 是一对形近异义词。
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Examples of false friend


false friend
If interactivity is functional across languages, we should expect that in the course of naming a word in one language its corresponding "falsefriend" in the non-response language is activated.
The word "implementation" is a falsefriend in this context.
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I recognise that anything we can achieve must be to some degree conditioned by the views of others, but expediency is always a falsefriend.
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The word "federal" is a falsefriend and a false enemy.
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Or is it a necessary way of distinguishing from the casual or falsefriend?
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Extending the period of maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay is a falsefriend.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Therefore, it is a falsefriend.
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When faced with a falsefriend, memorization and repetition are the keys to mastery.
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The term "wandern", frequently misused as a falsefriend, does in fact not mean to wander, but to hike.
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These items are often referred to with the terms "false friends" or "quasi-homophones across languages".
Other terms used are ' 'interlexical homographs' ' or ' 'false friends' '.
As triggering depends on conceptual overlap and not on similarities in word form, false friends are not predicted to facilitate codeswitching in this scenario.
Therefore, false friends (words sharing form but not meaning characteristics) are not predicted to facilitate codeswitching in this scenario.
Furthermore, false friends also offer us the possibility of testing whether the semantic system activates the two languages of a bilingual.
It is indeed a falsefriend.
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