Barack Obama is unusually long-winded: in the debate last week he crammed more than 19 words into an average sentence, nearly five more than John McCain.

巴拉克·奥巴马不是普通地啰嗦：在上周举行的辩论中，他每个句子的平均单词量超过19个他在一个普通的句子里塞进了超过19个单词，几乎比约翰·麦凯恩的多了5个。

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Pollard has now been in prison far longer than anyone else who had spied for a friendly country -- the average sentence for a spy convicted of passing intelligence to an allied country is seven years.

目前波拉德已在监狱里的时间，比任何一个刺探了友好国家情报的间谍所监禁的时间都要长——一般来说，为盟国传递情报的间谍案，一经定罪，平均刑期为7年。

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Average sentence length, associated words, the plots of direct speeches and some special sentence patterns are the four aspects of research on syntactic level.

平均句长、关联复句、直接引语及特殊句型是研究的重点。

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The commission's changes would reduce the average sentence from a little more than 10 years to a little under 9 years.

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Of those who were sentenced to immediate jail time, the average sentence length was nearly 17 months, though many have the possibility of parole.

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Elsewhere, writers have described a shrinking of sentence length in the average newspaper since the nineteen-thirties, probably because of radio.

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