那样用词是不适当的。

It was an unhappy choice of words.

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事实上，研究人员已经计算出80%的电话交流是通过你的语调，只有20%来自你的用词。

In fact, researchers have calculated that 80% of communication over the phone is through your tone of voice; and only 20% is from the words you use.

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“游牧者的定居”是用词上的自相矛盾。

A 'nomad settlement' is a contradiction in terms.

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Now a five-page paper is very different from an eight-page paper if you're actually thinking about the words you choose and how you write it.

一篇五页的论文,如果你真正考究用词和写法,和一篇八页的论文是截然不同的。

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And shielding is a little bit of a misnomer because it's not actually that's the electron's blocking the charge from another electron, it's more like you're canceling out a positive attractive force with a negative repulsive force.

屏蔽有一点点用词不当,因为它事实上不是,电子阻挡了来自另一个电子的电荷,它更像你在用一个负排斥力，抵消一个正吸引力,但是屏蔽是考虑这个问题,的很好的方式。

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Now we can debate what Jefferson got right or wrong there, or what's held up, but do note how he said both sides were either jealous or zealous of their own liberties.

现在我们讨论下他说的哪些对哪些不对,或者哪些还未有定论,但是请注意他提到双方对于自由态度是,用词的区别,一方珍惜一方热衷

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