epithets
（通常指在褒贬人时使用的）修饰词
例句
Racial epithets were scrawled on the walls.
墙上涂写着一些带有种族歧视的称谓。
《牛津词典》
Sometimes the epithets seemed completely off-key.
有时这些绰号似乎完全不中肯。
The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. Distinguishing epithets were rarely added.
盎格鲁-撒克逊人无论男女通常只有一个名字，很少加上用于区分的称呼。
