They wrote the notice in big red letters so that it would stickout.
他们用红色大字写出通知,这样会显眼一些。
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Now that we've figured out the ancient Greek meaning of pneumonia, we can stick it together with peri to get the peripheumon-their word for a lung problem.
既然我们弄明白古希腊语单词 pneumon 的意思了,我们就可以把它与前缀 peri 组合到一起,得到单词 peripheumon ——古希腊人用它来指称肺部病症。
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Every morning the old woman would go out to the little cage, and say: "Hansel, stickout your finger, that I may feel if you are fat enough for eating.