你说英文时习惯把每样东西说成复数。

When you speak English, you like to make everything plural.

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数学家对此很熟悉；如果将代数中的常见问题考虑成复数而不是实数时，那么这些问题就更容易处理，尽管复数算法较难。

Mathematicians are familiar with this; common problems in algebra are more tractable when considered over the complex numbers than over the reals, even though complex arithmetic is more difficult.

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不过，随着时间的推移，许多以英语为母语的人认为它是可数名词的复数形式，于是就有了逆成词pea。

Many English-speakers over time thought this was a plural count noun, though, and so pea is a back-formation.

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many an individual in the poem who is referred to as a Basileus, the plural is Basileis, which is normally and regularly translated as king, and that's right.

在史诗中有很多人物被称为,巴赛勒斯,复数形式是"Basileis",通常翻译成君主

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