缩略词通常指一个多音节的词扔掉一个或几个音节，然后变成的词语。

Clipped words are created by dropping one or more syllables from a polysyllabic word; a word of several syllables.

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在大概 12 个月的时候，多音节的胡乱语会冒出第一个准确的 字。

Multiple-syllable babbling will progress to jargoning with the emergence of the first true word at around 12 months of age.

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避免过度使用抽象的，多音节的词。相反地，要用具体的语言来激发听众们的想象。

Avoid overuse of abstract, polysyllabic words. Instead, use concrete language that your audience can visualize.

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Verse in which there is nothing but the beat of the metre furnished by the accents of the polysyllabic words we call doggerel. Verse is not that.

诗句中没有其他的东西,只有节奏,这节奏是由多音节的词造成的,我们叫打油诗，诗歌不是这个。

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