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Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.What are the four main sources of English synonyms?
【正确答案】：

BORROWING.DIALECTS AND REGIONAL ENGLISH. FIGURATIVE AND EUPHEMISTIC USE OF WORDS. COINCIDENCE WITH IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS.

【题目解析】：同义词的来源有：1）借用；2）方言和地区英语；3）比喻和委婉地使用词语；4）与惯用表达相吻合。