Etymonline pushes the date for the parents of brittle even further back, invoking proto-germanic, Old High German and Old Norse.

把brittle的祖先再往前推了不少年份，触及古日耳曼语，古高地德语，以及古斯堪地那维亚语。

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In proto - Germanic mythology, the god Odin would host a great hunting party for the gods and fallen warriors each year at yule.

在德国古老的神话中，欧丁神会在圣诞节那天为众神和死去的勇士举办盛大的狩猎狂欢会。

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Patient object is also a proto-category like other grammatical categories, so it shows a rank hierarchy for the degree of prototypicality on patientivity.

受事宾语像其他语法范畴一样也是一个典型范畴，因此，受事宾语在受事的典型性上也就存在着强弱差别。

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So, for instance,you will see references to words like proto-geometric.

所以 举例来说,你会看到,参照的术语有像"原几何"

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Hobbes, as we see, sometimes writes as a sort of scientist or proto-scientist for whom nature and one supposes the laws of nature operate with the same kind of necessity as the laws of physical attraction.

霍布斯有些时候,像科学家或者原科学家一样写作,对他来说，自然和自然法,与另一种必需法则,即物质吸引的法则共同作用。

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He also notes that sales and profits in the December quarter declined sequentially for Proto Labs.

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Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.

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For instance, proto-Elamite was the first writing ever to use syllables.

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