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A noun is followed by any of two verbs; a verb is followed by any of three nouns.

名词后接两个动词中的任何一个；动词后再接三个名词中的任何一个。

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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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So, at the top of 155, he's asked his question. "'Speak,' he commanded. She whispered, 'Love.'" Now, the problem with that is that answer; it's a verb and a noun.

在第155页上部，他问了自己的问题，说吧’,他命令道，她哭着说，爱，现在，问题是这个答案，爱，可以是动词也可以是名词。

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Even though we have a noun, the smile, that if you're not careful might lull you into thinking there must be a thing, the smile.

即使我们有笑容这个名词,如果你不够谨慎,可能会想当然地认为,一定存在着笑容这一事物

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As a noun, mongo is sanitation slang for treasure salvaged from trash.

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One brand in particular has carried out this entrepreneurial focus so well that today it is both a noun and a verb .

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He says that with the previous REST-based API there were things like naming confusion, thanks to "digg" being both a verb and a noun.

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