It was, in fact, Mourinho's linguistic ability that gave him his leg-up in big-time football.

实际上，是穆里尼奥的语言才能成就了他在足球领域的辉煌。

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The base-ten system used in modern arithmetic originates with the fingers, and linguistic traces of that fact remain in the similarity of "five", "finger" and "fist", and the dual meaning of "digit".

现代代数中使用的十进制源于人类拥有的手指数量，在语言中也存在“five”，“finger”和“fist”的相似现象以及“digit”的双重含义都提供了这样的证据。

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This thesis aims to use the "tool" of modern linguistic theory to attack the "style" of Chinese medieval language so as to perfect the combination of theory and fact.

本论文的特色在于以现代语言学理论之“器”，攻中古汉语语言之“体”，以欲更善其理论与事实相结合之“事”。

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There is a fundamental presumably congenital distinction, as shown by the fact that the non-linguistic side of the brain distinguishes between blue and green.

ECONOMIST: Psychology

"The Net brings the communities together and enables them to maintain -- in fact enhance -- cultural and linguistic identities, " he says.

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