I wish there would be a way to describe China in a simple word but that's impossible.

我希望能用一个简单的词来形容中国，但这是不可能的。

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A more economical approach was to use a sign to express not a whole word but a single syllable.

更经济的方法是使用一个符号来表达一个音节，而不是一个完整的单词。

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Extensive reading is not reading word for word but finding out the main ideas of the passage.

泛读并非逐字逐句地阅读，而是找出文章的主要意思。

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Hit is a small word but it has a lot of power.

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That's not meant to be a bad word but suggests being influenced, one might say, in the sense of "open the window and influenza," by those signs that precede it.

这不是个不好的词，只是想要表达影响的意思，人们可能说将一个符号之前的符号称作是“,“打开了窗户，引发了流感“

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Originally, we thought it's information needs only; we just need to find a web page that contains the query word, but it's actually not.

起初，我们以为人们只是需要信息而已;,只需找到一个带有关键字的网页即可，但实际上并不是。

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"I don't often use that word but then it is not very often that you get to meet one, " he said.

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The high falutin' description would be "postmodern"--an overused word but one that, in this case, perfectly captures where the kids are at.

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