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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The ancient Gothic word for ten, tachund, is used to express the number 100 as tachund tachund.

在古哥特语中，表示“十”的词是 “tachund”，用来表示数字100的是 “tachund tachund”。

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One of the showiest stunts that some languages can pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-breaking length, and thus express in one word what English takes a whole sentence to say.

有一些语言最令人叹为观止的特色之一，是能够创造出某些长得无法一口气读完的单词，由此用一个单词就能表达英语需要用一整个句子才能说出来的意思。

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They say the word "trick" can mean a shortened and effective way to express complex findings.

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Without speaking a word of English, he turned to music to learn how to express himself in his new environment.

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