Participants were first presented with, and asked to learn, pairs of words.

参与者先是被呈现并被要求学习成对的词组。

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Draw lines to match the words and pictures. Circle the rhyming pairs of words.

为以下单词和图片连线，然后圈出押韵词。

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This is because many pairs of words and phrases have similar meanings in English.

这是因为英语中有许多对单词和词组有相近的意思。

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It does this by recording pairs of keystrokes, putting them against dictionaries with nearly 58, 000 words to come up with the most likely results.

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Both are digital systems, in which words or base pairs are recombined to make an infinite possibility of messages. (Elsewhere I once noted the numerical similarity between Shakespeare's vocabulary of about 20, 000 distinct words and his genome of about 21, 000 genes).

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