How better to check out the etymology of the word than to ask its creator?

还有什么比询问其创造者来查询一个单词语源更好的方法吗？

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Rather than add seasonal workers, the company plans to ask its existing employees to put in more hours.

该公司并未准备招收季节性员工，而是计划在圣诞节期间安排现有员工加班。

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In theory a newspaper could ask its readers to sign up for a two-year electronic subscription, say, and subsidise the cost of an e-reader.

理论上，一家报纸可以让他的读者订阅两年的电子报纸，这样可免费获赠一台电子阅读器。

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Vermont, however, still won the right for its researchers to ask for money under the National Sea Grant Program.

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The Washington Post surveyed its readership and discovered that ask people what they thought was the most significant causes of the shooting.

华盛顿邮报》在读者中进行了调查,并且发现当询问人们,他们认为,枪杀案发生的主要原因是什么。

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You can also turn this on its face a little bit and use this to ask a question.

你也可以对这个句型稍微做一下变形，用作疑问句。

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If a firm prefers another state's rules, it can ask its shareholders to approve a switch.

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Stournaras said this would allow the country to ask its international creditors for some further debt relief.

NPR: Greece: Economic Recovery In Sight

Berlin says it cannot ask its taxpayers to bail out Cyprus if that involves protecting wealthy Russians.

BBC: Cyprus bank crisis: Mounting EU pressure