Many such words contain three or more than three syllables; most of them are of Greek or Latin origin.

许多书面语包含有三个或三个以上音节，大部分源于希腊或拉丁语。

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Many common words, such as the names for the days of the week and the months of the year, also come from mythology.

许多常见的单词，比如星期几、月份的名称，也来自神话。

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It is strange that we have so many words for fear, when fear is such a unitary, primal feeling.

奇怪的是，虽然恐惧是一种单一原始的情绪，我们却有那么多形容它的字眼。

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Baseball expert Richard Miller writes that many songs about other subjects -- such as love -- use words and expressions from baseball.

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Many such words, says Peter Trudgill, a linguistics expert who can trace all his great great-grandparents to a small patch of eastern Norfolk, have been imported from or exported to the rest of the world.

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Many might consider such words uncontroversial, but the HDZ reacted furiously.

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But, to many in the industry, such words have a hollow ring (and are interpreted mainly as a way of demonstrating that the government's pursuit of Yukos is not wholly political).

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