纺纱是这个词里的一个重要因素，因为最初“spinsters”（纺纱者）是指那些主要从事纺织工作，将亚麻或羊绒纺成丝线的年轻姑娘。

Spin is the important element here, since at first spinsters were young women whose main labor was to work at spinning flax or sheep's-wool into tread or yarn.

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这个词主要用在形容人，不过形容事物也是没问题的。

It's mainly used for people, but it can be used for things too.

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IBM InfoSphere Guardium Data Redaction有13种预定义的主要语义类别，如表2所示，您可以使用它们指定应该编校文档中的哪些词。

IBM InfoSphere Guardium Data Redaction has 13 pre-defined major semantic categories, as shown in Table 2, so that you can specify which words should be redacted in the documents.

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Present participles in general in Areopagitica being probably the most important form of speech, the act of gathering him may be more pleasurable, more desirable, than actually having him fully reconstituted.

大体上，现在分词在《论出版自由》中演讲的最,主要的时态形式，收集他的行为可能比,拥有真正再拼凑起的他更让人满足，更让人有欲望。

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MHC1 is a word, MHC stands for major histocompatibility complex and it's one of the things that distinguishes my cells from your cells, from your parents cells, from your roommates cells.

HC1这个词,MHC代表主要组织相容性复合体,通过它可以区分你和我的细胞,也可以区分你和你父母,及你室友的细胞

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