For instance, subjects are given three words such as "age", "mile" and "sand"—and asked to come up with a single word that can precede or follow each of them to form a compound word.

例如，给受试者三个单词，如“年龄”、“英里”和“沙子”，并要求他们想出一个单词，这个单词可以在这三个词之前或之后组成一个复合词。

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Sometimes two words come together to form a compound word, such as blackboard.

有时候两个单词舍在一起构成一个合成词，例如，黑板。

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One of the distinct individuals that join to form a compound or colonial animal; a zooid.

群体动物的个体形成集合或群体动物的完全不同的个体；

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so we are actually trying to develop a compound to treat a very severe form of autism,

我们想研究出某种能够治疗一种非常严重的自闭症的复合药物，

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When heating up a chlorine compound with other Martian soils, Curiosity discovered that the compound reacted with carbon to form a simple organic.

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In China, they use artillery shells, rockets and airplanes to spray existing cloud systems with silver iodide, a compound that triggers moisture in the clouds to form ice crystals, which then fall to earth as snow or rain.

WSJ: Blizzard Renews Storm Over China Making Snow

One company exploits this phenomenon by making nanoparticles of the compound cerium oxide, which in that form are chemically reactive enough to serve as a catalyst.

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