Foreign correspondents in the first half of the 20th century learned to write in cablese, a series of abbreviations demanded by news organisations that had to pay by the word.

在20世纪的前半段，报社的驻国外记者开始使用电报来发报道，由于电报是按字收费，因此一系列的缩写由这些新闻组织发明出来。

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The second half of the word philately comes from the Greek ateleia meaning “tax exemption.”

单词Philately的后半部分文来自于希腊语ateleia，意思为“免税”。

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The first part of the word, techn actually did mean “art” or “craft” from Greek, while the second half logy means more literally “the writings on” or “the accumulated knowledge about.”

单词的第一部分，techn在希腊语中实际上就意为“艺术”或者“工艺”。 而第二部分logy更加准确的意思是“有关……的著作”或是“关于……累积的知识”。

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