"I think that,because it looks like the top four parties are going to be relatively close to one another, it is going to require a significant amount of political maneuvering, brokering deals, a lot of horse-trading behind closed doors to form a government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

They borrow the characters from what had been already something quite close to an alphabet and had only a relatively small number.

他们从十分接近字母系统的书写体系中,借来字符使用,而这些字符相对较少

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