阿普尔顿

Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere

variant of 爾|尔[er3]

thus / so / like that / you / thou

abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]

prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]

flatter

(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with

to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal

general / popular / everywhere / universal