Word, however, has little concept of the page as a design unit.

把页面作为设计单元，word 几乎没有这样的概念；

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For much the same reason that so many of our words have Latin roots, the word "mile" was used for a unit of distance in many languages throughout Europe.

我们许多英语单词都扎根于拉丁语，同样，mile也曾是欧洲许多语言中的一个长度单位。

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Word pattern is the smallest meaningful language unit recognized by a machine.

字模式是计算机能识别的有意义的最小语言单位。

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By the way, in what I'm saying, I oversimplify by supposing that the basic unit of language is a word.

因为我想说的是，我们现在是把语言的基本单位简单化了。

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I think that word "see" deserves the accent there, and so it's--the first unit of sound isn't quite normative.

我觉得“看“是重音，这是第一个音律不规则的地方。

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It could be the letter understood either graphically or audibly, and the variety of ways in which one can choose a basic unit in the study of linguistics means that you need a special word for that unit, which is characteristically "the tagmeme."

它既可以以图像的方式理解，也可以以声音的方式，因为每个人研究时选取的,基本的语言学单位不一样,所以需要一个特殊的名词来指代这个单位，这就是，法位“

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Finally, in November 2008, word came that the Presidential Unit Citation had been approved.

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On June 10th, Mr Talbott was flying west out of Moscow after a hard round of talks when word reached him that a small Russian unit had abandoned its post in Bosnia and was racing through Serbia towards Kosovo.

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