Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the address was simply meant to give students a boost at the start of a new school year.

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What this means, if you average it out, is that since children start learning their first words at about their first year of life, they learn about nine new words a day.

如果你将这个数字平均一下,这意味着,儿童从一岁左右,学习第一个词开始,每天学会九个新词

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