We speak a decimal language because an ancestral tongue, proto-Indo-European, was decimally based.

我们说的是十进制的语言，这是因为我们的始祖语言——原始印欧语——是基于十进制的。

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The scholars referred to that source language as Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language.

学者们把这种源语言称为原始印欧语。原始印欧语是一种重建的语言。

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Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.

原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言，也就是说，这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。

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But generally,the documents that came to be accepted were the ones that people we call the "proto-orthodox."

但总的来说，被接受的书籍,都被人们称为“原始东正教“

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Now, one of the earliest -- and I think this is a remarkable fact - one of the earliest citations of Paradise Lost that actually appears in print in the seventeenth century comes from the proto-feminist writer Lady Mary Chudleigh.

最早的--我认为这很重要,-17世纪最早的以印刷形式出现的,对《失乐园》的引用,来自于原型女性主义作家玛丽·恰德莱夫人。

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So what some scholars have done is create this word "proto-orthodox."

所以有些学者,造出了“原始东正教“这个词“

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The effect was many things--proto-guru, neo-Nehru, bandwidth bobo, Euro-weenie--they all definitely said New Economy.

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

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Classic proto first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D is now free to play, courtesy of developer Bethesda.

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