We develop support system for sequence design in DNA computing, which minimizes the evaluation function calculated as the linear sum of the plural evaluation terms.

我们给出了DNA计算中序列设计的支持系统：计算由多个评价指标的线性和组成的适应值函数的最小值。

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In English pun can be made on abbreviation and the singular and plural forms of English words, which cannot be used in Chinese pun, while the allegorical pun is unique to Chinese.

英语双关就利用了英语的缩略语与名词的单复数形式来创造双关，而汉语则有其独特的歇后语双关。

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There is also a kind of collective noun which can be used either in the singular or in the plural sense. eg: team, a team, three teams.

另外，这些集体名词还可以用于用于单数意义把集体视为一个整体，用于复数意义指构成构成集体的一个个成员。

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So wherever you see '"LORD" in small caps, that's actually the English translation for Yahweh, the proper name, like almost a personal name for God. And then in other places we have this word Elohim, which actually is the word for "gods," a sort of generic term for deities in the plural.

所以你们看到小写的时,其实是耶和华的英文翻译，正确的名字,像是上帝个人的名字,有时候我们用，Elohim一词，这是对,神一词的复数形式的翻译。

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Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.

ECONOMIST: Cultural history