a form of address

基本解释

But why, a form of address become me and don'ted like most .
却为何，成了我最不喜欢的一个称呼。
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I have to rise conscience for you I feeling to, to have to rise a form of address in"friend", but you do again some what?
我对于你我觉得对得起良心，对得起“朋友”这个称呼，而你又做了些什么？
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That is how they addressed him: don plus his given name and without the family name, a form of address somewhere between what might seem like familiarity and the veneration owed to a feudal lord.
他们就是这么称呼他的：“先生”加上他的名而不加姓。这种称谓方式听起来有几分亲切，也有几分像是向封建主致敬。

And it's not used only as a form of address, but also when we speak of a mother in the third person.
NPR: Are You My Mother?
El Gato, a middle-aged man with a severe manner, asked Don Miguel, using a respectful form of address, for his side of the story.
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This payment, in the form of a bitly-esque short URL, can then be included in an email to that address, and the user can attempt to call attention to the enclosed bribe in the subject line.
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