我们在这里用“拼音”，因为“拼音”是汉字的中文拼写方式。

We use "pinyin" here because "pinyin" is the Chinese spelling way for the characters.

youdao

“我不是拼音之父，我是拼音之子。”周有光这样说到。

"I'm not the father of pinyin - I'm the son of pinyin," says Zhou.

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也许听起来有些刺耳，但汉语的拼音方案确实太多，而大多数的拼音方案不是什么文字委员会提倡的，就是语言学家提出来的，更糟糕的是由那些语言学家组成的文字委员会提出来的。

Perhaps that's too harsh, but it is true that there are toomany of them, and most of them were designed either by committee orby linguists, or -- even worse -- by a committee of linguists。

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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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