希腊人将它改良，他们通过把一些他们自己的语言中并不需要的符号变成元音使用，使其成为真正的字母表。
The Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.
希腊人发展了这个系统，形成了希腊字母表的字母。
The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet.
这些人使用的标志变成了一种字母表。
罗马人模仿了这个想法，现在世界各地都在使用罗马字母表。
The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.
通过将传感器与电脑相连，人可以可以带着这个设备在吸气时选择屏幕上的字母，从而打印出词和句子。
By connecting the sensor to a computer, a person wearing the device can use sniffs to select letters on a screen to build up words and sentences.
符号仅仅是字母，所以X的A说，X是一个人。
And the symbols are only letters. So a of X says that X is a man.
《连线》的执行主编凯文·凯利(Kevin Kelly)最近采访了布鲁克斯，二人就失败的益处、小写字母和苹果有什么值得我们学习之处等一些奇奇怪怪的问题作了深入讨论。
Wired's founding executive editor, Kevin Kelly, spoke with Brooks to discuss the upside of failure, lowercase letters, and what we can learn from Apple.
它是“completelyautomatedpublicTuringtesttotellcomputers andhumansapart”的首字母，意为“区分人与计算机的全自动公众图灵测试”；当然，首字母缩写并不是完全对应的。
It stands for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"; no, the acronym doesn't really fit.
作为交换条件，这些人可以参加一个抽奖，500人中有一个人可获得500美元（事实上，由于只有280人参与，中奖的可能性要大多了），结果再一次表明，姓氏首字母靠后的人反应速度更快，无论男女都是如此。
In exchange, they were told, they had a 1 in 500 chance of winning $500 in a drawing. (In fact, since only 280 people responded, the odds were much better.)
不要用大写字母写信(那让人感觉是种邮件中的意气之争或感觉是带有其他强烈的情绪的辩论)。
Don't write in all upper case letters (which is an E-mail convention for anger or other strong emotions).
通常把字母表归因于腓尼基人。
它提供了一个带有控件的字母清单，可以跳到联系人页面中特定字母的页面，如图13所示。
It provides an alphabetic listing with controls to jump to a specific letter page in the contact list as shown in figure 13.
不过呢W其实并不在罗马字母表内。在采用了罗马人的标准字母表中的23个字母后，我们英国人自己发明了这个W。
Now in fact W was not part of the Roman alphabet. We English invented W after adopting the 23 letters that came as a standard set from the Romans.
一个人在输入同时另一个人记录加密或解密后的字母。
One man types while another records the enciphered or deciphered letters.
在所有技术行话和首字母缩略词的海洋中，有时软件开发人员和经理们会忘记：是人制造了软件。
In all of the technical jargon, and in the sea of acronyms, sometimes software developers and managers forget that people make software.
除了读书，这些机器人用预设了程序的软件唱歌，并和孩子们做字母表游戏。
Apart from reading books, the robots use pre-programmed software to sing songs and play alphabet games with the children.
那些车厢上画满了涂鸦，像是书法作品，很精致的，造型，可能有涂鸦者认识的人的，名字首字母，但别人不可能知道那些人。
The cars covered with graffiti, well, those graffiti are a kind of calligraphy, very curve, elaborate designs, possibly with the initials of people that they know, but nobody else could know.
这串让人费解的单词组依然存在规则：单词按照字母顺序排列。
This confused list of words still USES rules: the words are arranged alphabetically.
不过想出一连串的字母数字符号往往烦人且让人来气，所以就有相对来说不多的人对此困惑不已。他们青睐简单易猜的单词来做密码。
But coming up with complex concatenations of alphanumeric symbols tends to be tedious and offputting, so relatively few people bother, plumping instead for simple, and easily guessable, words.
另外，第二部分中按字母顺序排列的过程域的描述可能会让人感到混淆。
Plus, the process area descriptions in the second section, presented alphabetically, can be very confusing.
联系人可以按照字母顺序来排列，也可以按照在线状态排列。
它的全名叫作 “劲能自主式战术机器人”，或者按照英文首字母缩写的EATR，暂且称为“吃货”。
The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot is known, of course, by its acronym: EATR.
你的老师--我叫他Spa，引用了苏格拉底，柏拉图和亚里士多德名字的第一个字母--他将告诉坐在那里的每一个人。
Your mentor -- I'll call him Spa, using the first letters in the names Socrates, Plato and Aristotle -- tells everyone to sit.
一场封闭入场的卡内基音乐厅表演观众中，有2个人的姓和名有相同的首字母。
In a packed Carnegie Hall performance, there will be two people who have the same first and last initials.
当数字增大时，罗马人只能疲于接招，不断地创造出新的字母用来标记数字 ——C代表100，D代表500，M代表1000 ——因为在他们的数字系统中不能将‘0’添加在数字后面。想感觉100万有多大？
The Romans had to keep on cooking up new letters every time their numbers got bigger - C for 100, D for 500, M for 1, 000 - because they didn't have zeros to add on to the end.
独特，让人难忘，VAL Stencil具有两种变体：小写字母向左边斜靠而大写字母向右边斜靠。
A quite distinctive, memorable font with two variations: lowercase letters bend to the left and uppercase letters bend to the right.
另一些人认为酒瓶上刻的名字的缩写“Th.J”这几个字母看起来不太对劲。
To others, something about the initials engraved on it, "th. J", did not seem quite right.
另一些人认为酒瓶上刻的名字的缩写“Th.J”这几个字母看起来不太对劲。
To others, something about the initials engraved on it, "th. J", did not seem quite right.
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