低土马就是希腊语的“双生子“,“多马“来源于闪语，希伯来语或亚兰语，或者叙利亚语，这三种都是很相似的语言，“多马“在这些语言中也有“双生“的意思。

Didymus is the Greek word for "twin" and Thomas is from a Semitic word,either Hebrew or Aramaic, or Syriac,which are all three similar languages, "Thomas" would look like in "twin" in those.

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所以他的真名叫犹太或犹大，低土马以及，多马是其昵称，一个为希腊语，一个为闪语或亚兰语。

His real name is Judah or Judas and Didymus, and Thomas are his nicknames, one Greek and one Semitic or Aramaic.

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我对此物的认识是从1926-1927年间冬季叔祖父的死开 始的，George Gammell Angell，布朗大学闪语族的荣誉退休教授，普罗维登斯（美国罗得岛州首府和最大城市），罗得岛州。

My knowledge of the thing began in the winter of 1926-27 with the death of my great-uncle, George Gammell Angell, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

youdao

I forget the exact number of the ones in the Semitic alphabet, but we're talking about roughly twenty-five.

我忘了闪米特语中有多少字母,粗略说来大概有二十五个

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If you read a well, a good example of that kind of Semitic script is Hebrew.

如果你读的好,一个很好的关于闪米特语的例子就是希伯来语

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The letters, the design of the writing comes, in fact, from Asia, probably from--almost certainly from Phoenicia, the land that is now called Lebanon and the language that was for that script was Semitic language.

事实上,材料中的字母和符号都来自,亚洲,很可能来自--应该能肯定是,来自腓尼基,就是现在被叫做黎巴嫩的地方,书稿的语言用的是闪米特语

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