有一些语言最令人叹为观止的特色之一，是能够创造出某些长得无法一口气读完的单词，由此用一个单词就能表达英语需要用一整个句子才能说出来的意思。

One of the showiest stunts that some languages can pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-breaking length, and thus express in one word what English takes a whole sentence to say.

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他们可以用它们来代替一个单词或整个句子。

They can use them instead of a single word or an entire sentence.

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很明显，整个句子被分成几个不同部分，并且很难翻译。

Obviously, the whole sentence has been separated into different segments and is hard to translate.

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You've learnt what the words mean, but you have abstract and unconscious rules that take these words, figure out the order, and in a fraction of a second, give rise to understanding.

虽然你已经知道了这些单词的意思,但却是你所拥有的抽象且无意识的规则,让你认清单词,确认语序,然后在一瞬间让你理解整个句子

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to make a question a little bit more polite, a little bit softer.

这样可以让整个句子显得更有礼貌，也更为温和。

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