Parmesan is a generic term used to describe a family of hard Italian cheeses.

巴尔马干酪是一个用来描述一类坚硬的意大利奶酪的通用名称。

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Software is a generic term for the sets of programs which control a computer.

软件是控制计算机的各类程序的通称。

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Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases that can affect any part of the body.

癌症是一组可影响身体任何部位的多种疾病的通称。

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The Hebrew word that designates the creature created by God is ; the word adam. It's actually not a proper name, small a; it is adam, it's a generic term.

希伯来语中命名上帝所造之物的词语正是,“亚当“它其实并不是一个准确的名字;,他是上帝所创之物，是类属的名称。

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So wherever you see '"LORD" in small caps, that's actually the English translation for Yahweh, the proper name, like almost a personal name for God. And then in other places we have this word Elohim, which actually is the word for "gods," a sort of generic term for deities in the plural.

所以你们看到小写的时,其实是耶和华的英文翻译，正确的名字,像是上帝个人的名字,有时候我们用，Elohim一词，这是对,神一词的复数形式的翻译。

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Converging technologies is a generic term for technologies which interact with one another in the development of new products and services.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

The fact is that the Internet is the name of a specific collection of networks, while internet is a generic term for two or more connected networks.

BBC: Computer user

Tear gas is a generic term for a group of at least 15 toxic chemical agents that disable people by exposing their lungs, skin and eyes to irritants.

BBC: Bahrain authorities 'weaponising' tear gas