I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

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And as an example, let's take sulfuryl chloride, SO2, Cl2 make it a little complicated, Cl2, right, so don't worry about these compounds.

让我们用SO2作为一个例子，这有点难度，对，还有，不要担心这些化合物。

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