所以我们立马把每一个动词缩减成了名词。

So we immediately reduce every verb to a noun.

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夏奈尔这个名字成了优雅的代名词。

The name Chanel became a byword for elegance.

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boy这个名词加上-ish，就成了形容词boyish。

"Boy" is a noun, but the ending "-ish" makes it an adjective - boyish.

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This sentence expands to a noun followed by a verb followed by a sentence and there you get recursion.

这个句子就扩展成了,一个名词,后跟一个动词,再接刚才的句子,这样就变成了递归

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