八月30日，许多日本大选参与人员用平假名印出竞选者的姓名，一种最初用来教儿童的最为基本的拼音字体，而不是正规的汉字。

MANY campaign posters for Japan's general election on August 30th print the candidate's name in hiragana, a rudimentary, phonetic script first taught to children, rather than the kanji.

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“拼音的出现不是为了取代汉字，相反，它是汉字的帮手。”周有光说。

"Pinyin is not to replace Chinese characters; it is a help to Chinese characters," Zhou says.

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有一个简单的办法就是用拼音输入法，这是一种用来将汉字转化为拉丁字母的音标系统。

One shortcut is to use pinyin, a phonetic system used to transliterate Chinese words into the Latin alphabet.

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And then we hand you 140,000 English words in the form of a big text file much like our aspiring pre-med students in recent months, and we challenge you to implement the fastest spellchecker possible.

然后我给你一个包含1万4千单词的超大文本,就跟前段时间那位,有抱负的医学预科班的学生一样,我想让你在最短时间内实现拼音检查。

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