Add "ism" to a word and, to the delight of philologists, you bring out a whole new level of meaning, distinction and nuance.

让语言学家们高兴的是，一旦给一个词语加个后缀“主义”，这个词便从意义，等级到细微差别马上升到一个新水准。

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The ancient philologists often ignored this, which resulted in the words notes and annotations failing to express the meaning of"Zài Bài";

古代文献的整理者们常常忽略这一点，导致“再拜”的“注释”和“译文”辞不逮义；

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They pass into conventional symbols in the multiform uses of daily speech; they become commonplace factors of a commonplace present, and remain historic only to lexicographers and philologists.

它们作为传统的符号使用在各式日常言语里，变得司空见惯，它们的原意只限于词典编纂者和语言学家。

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Philologists may scoff that such a parentage was obvious from Cabernet Sauvignon's name, but it was not.

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Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

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