"Duoshao" is a question word.

王渊源：“多少”是一个疑问代词。

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Begin with a question word.

用疑问句开始。

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Use a question word+to-infinitive to replace each object clause.

运用疑问词十动词不定式来代替每个宾语从句。

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I'm Doug Johnson. This week, we listen to music from young singer Jazmine Sullivan, answer a listener question about the word 'mosaic', and, head to Miami, Florida for a visit to an unusual museum.

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"Turkey rejects the notion of genocide - actually the word or the term 'genocide.' They have acknowledged that there were deportations - there is no question about that - and that there were massacres and killings.

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Or rather, between the thing and the word a question had appeared, a slight pause, a rupture.

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The only open question is whether the word of mouth swearing its the most gruesome and stomach-churning R-rated horror film in recent memory helps or hinders word of mouth.

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That fact is then connected with the user's question, even if the word order of the result and the query didn't originally match.

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