The four-word lexical bundles are found to be a major sustaining device in conversation structure and an active strategy with supportive information to other interlocutors.

在会话目的的表达上，四字词串成为说话人积极参与会话的手段，往往包含着对前说话人话语支持的信息。

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In a study describing the technology, the researchers had 100 volunteers type the word "touch" four times using the smart keyboard.

在一项描述该技术的研究中，研究人员让100名志愿者用智能键盘输入四次“touch”这个单词。

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They included a pizza chef, an electrical engineer, a bank executive, a school teacher and four stockbrokers; stockbrokers get the word faster.

其中包括一名披萨厨师、一名电气工程师、一名银行高管、一名教师和四名股票经纪人；股票经纪人得到消息的速度更快。

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Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

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So it does that for us so that you can get away with just knowing the address of the first byte and it will make sure that you know when to stop by including the special value so, in fact, get the string if you type in a three-letter word, we allocate four bytes no matter what because we need an additional byte 0 for this special sentinel value back slash zero at the very end.

它为我们做了这些事情，这样我们就可以,通过第一个字节的地址,它还可以通过包含一个特殊的值,来保证在哪里停止，如果你输入了一个三个字母的单词,就可以获得那个字符串，不管怎样，我们分配四个字节,因为我们在末端需要一个额外的字节,来保存这个特殊的标志值--反斜杠。

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I certainly don't want to assume they're always going to type a three-letter or a four-letter or a two-letter word I want some dynamism but that's fine because get string can get a string of any length, I can then use the string length function to just ask while the program is running how big is the string that I was handed?

当然我不能假设他总是,输入3个字符或4个字符,或2个字符的单词，我想要动态地分配,因为GetString可以获得任意长度的字符串，然后我可以使用strlen函数,来得到那个我传递的字符串,有多长？

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The problem is that the word compromise, once a ten-letter word, has become a four-letter word among many of the more extreme Republicans who have entered the House of Representatives and the Senate over the past few elections.

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Government ministers, union leaders and people running big airports can look after themselves even if they may be taken aback by Mr O'Leary's typically four-letter-word abuse.

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That may be a four-letter word, but the two initiatives it encapsulates can lay the foundation for IT advancement among the have-nots.

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