The Indo-European root that likely gave us our word number was nem.

number这个词的印欧语词根可能是nem。

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The word chihuahua appears in the third row of column 2 and the fourth row of column 3, but it is displayed as word number 5. Here's how to do that.

单词chihuahua在第2栏中出现在第三行，第3栏中出现在第四行，但显示的数字都是5。

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I'm speculating when I say that I think all these USES are using the word number where the sense of "thing" applies: a hot thing, rolling a thing, doing a thing.

我推想，在这些用法里，凡是出现number的地方都可以用thing来替代而不改变原意，比如：a hot thing, rolling a thing, doing a thing。

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The word chip appears in a number of special American expressions.

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I once counted the number of times he used the word the letter--O--in that poem, and I quit counting.

我曾经数过他到底在诗里用了多少个"啊",最后我放弃了

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The size of the word represents the number of posts about the subject.

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Fact is, if you want to use your computer for much of anything beyond word processing, number crunching or surfing the web, having an Apple computer is an enormous liability.

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This produces a significant number of word-of-mouth referrals back to the website.

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