单选题 For example, the word "bead" originally means "prayer", but later it refers to "the prayer bead", and finally "small, ball-shaped piece of glass, metal or wood". It is called ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 例如，bead这个单词最初的含义是“祈祷”，但是后来转变为“念珠”，最后是“水珠、钢珠”。这被称做词义转移。
本题考查常识。meaning shift词义转移；broadening词义扩大；narrowing词义缩小；borrowing借词。故选A。