Why is "abbreviated" such a long word？

为什么“缩写”是这么长的一个单词？

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T: Yeah, so I'm, my character is a very traditional woman, very traditional Chinese countryside woman. I think it's very very long word.

恩，我的角色是一个很传统的女人，一个非常传统的中国农村里的女人，恩，非常长的一段前缀词啊，但是十分的贴切。

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A SNP is a variation in just one nucleotide of a genetic sequence; think of it as a spelling change affecting just one letter in an uncommonly long word.

一个SNP就是只在一个基因序列的一个核苷酸中发生的变异；就像一个拼写变化只影响一个罕见的长单词中的一个字母。

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Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago.

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It's a long word that just means other chemistry that happens on the molecule after translation.

翻译后修饰意味着,在翻译之后对于产物分子的其他化学修饰

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So if your word game doesn't work when the words are 12 letters long, instead of continuing to debug 12 letter hands see if you can make it fail on a three letter hand.

因此如果你的单词游戏当输入单词,有12个字母的时候没法运行了，看看输入三个字母的单词它,能不能正常运行吧。

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Which goes to show that 'yes' can be a very long word.

BBC: Who lives in a house like this?

Orwell said that a long word should never be used when a shorter equivalent existed, and that redundant words should always be cut out.

CNN: Uncovering the secrets of storytelling

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

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