And since there were no mass communications in those days, in fact nothing more than word of mouth for most people, that usually meant that the word used was in pretty wide circulation.

由于那个年代没有大众传播工具，词语在人与人之间多为口口相传；也就意味着，一个词语被使用的时候，流传范围已经很广了。

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A word processor is much better than a typewriter in that it enables you to enter and text your text more easily.

文字处理机比打字机好得多，因为它能让你更容易地输入你的文本。

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It is even more expressive than the written word.

它甚至比书面文字更具表现力。

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They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

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Paideia The Greek word paideia, which is right there on your handout, means education, but it also means more than simply rote learning or memorization or learning to read, like we think.

希腊词，讲义上有，意思是教育，但不仅如此,它不仅仅指我们想的那种，死记硬背式的教育。

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When Milton instructs his muse, "Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view," there's something more here than the primary sense of the word, which is just "first in sequence."

弥尔顿写到缪斯的时候，“请先说，天界和地狱深渊在您的眼中，一切都了如指掌“,这句中“先“除了它本身的意思“最先“之外，还有其他的含义“

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If your item is more than one word, you just close the phrase with a plus or minus sign.

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"Images are more powerful than word-of-mouth, " says Mr. Saladino.

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In viewing our universe by way of models, we can build a hypothesis as a picture, visual data organizing itself more easily than word-based modeling (either as sound or text), and visualization lends itself to extremely large models.

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