Take the example of "plastic" again: "Oh, gee, that's a strange word," we say, so we go to the OED , we see it meant something different then, our problem is solved, and we continue.

再拿“塑料“来举例：,我们说，“哦，那是个生词“,所以我们去查牛津大学英语词典，我们发现它有些不同的意思，问题解决了，我们继续下去。

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There it meant something much more interesting, mainly anti-particles accompanying particles.

而那里说的是一些更有趣的东西,大多数反粒子与粒子成对出现

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plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

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Under Louis Brandeis -Brandeis wanted companies to always present the information, but for him it always meant presenting a document, so they had something called a prospectus, for example.

路易斯·布兰代斯...,他希望公司能够始终提供信息,在他那个时代,是指提供文档,比如当时称为招股说明书一类的文件

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