Forget it. Not after your cousin who could belch the alphabet.

算了吧。自从见过你那打嗝都能喷出字的表哥以后我再也敢领教了。

There are quite a few familiarity markers in English - words which take on an ending to make the word sound much more familiar, or everyday, or down to earth.

英语中有很多近亲词，这些词的词末字通常会让单词听亲近，通俗实用。

There, every being is a letter of the alphabet.

所有的存在都是字表上的一个字。

“The Chudley Cannons, ” said Ron, pointing at the orange bedspread, which was emblazoned with two giant blackC’s and a speeding cannonball. “Ninth in the league.”

“查德里火炮队，”罗恩一指橙黄色的床罩，那上面鲜艳地印着两个巨大的字Ｃ，还有一枚疾飞的炮弹，“俱乐部中排名第九。”

We have silent letters, we have confusing letter combinations.

我们有发音的字，有令人摸着头脑的字组合。

When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it's not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers, but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.

当年轻的学生学习计算机科学的时候，他们就会知道计算机科学并是令人困惑、无穷尽的字和数字串，而是一种工具，这种工具能编写应用程序、创造艺术作品或检验假设。

While Zed appears in the English alphabet, it is not part of the Greek alphabet which contains Zeta.

zed是英语字，希腊字应的是zeta.

Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush's predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half.

如此这般，美国的总统和副总统的姓氏分别是以 B 和C字头。乔治·布什的前任有二十六位（包括其父）的姓氏均在字表的前半部，而姓氏在字表后半部的却仅有十六位。

Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

然后在答题纸1上应的字中间划上横线。

31. What is the most important feature of John Mogger's method of teaching the alphabet?

问题31. 约翰·摩格的字教学法中最重要的特点是什么？

Yes. And there are other words like dramatic, to do with theatre and drama; alphabetic, to do with the alphabet, and artistic, to describe things to do with art. Finn, are you artistic?

是的。还有其他的词——dramatic，与戏剧有关的；alphabetic，与字有关的；artistic，与艺术有关的。芬恩，你有艺术细胞吗？

The nurse approaches with the needle, and it happens again, this torrent of four-letter words.

护士拿着针走近，又发生了，这四个字的单词的洪流。

In this case the acronym of choice is REPEL (Rapidly Emplaced Protection for Earthen Levees).

这种装置的全称是" 泥土坝便置保护装置" ，其英文首字的缩略语REPEL也正好有" 防御" 的意思。

For those who love that high scoring Z tile-you can now use cazh and schvitz.

于那些钟爱Z字的人—你现在可以尝试下cazh和schvitz。

Like, they asked them to recall strings of letters with varying degrees of difficulty.

在最近的一项实验中，研究人员使用了一台功能性磁共振成像设备（fMRI）监测28人在进行某些认知测试时的大脑活动。比如，他们要求受试者回忆同难度级别的字串。

When I learned the alphabet as a child, I heard it before I saw it.

我销售学习字时，先听到字的发音而后才看到写法。

You may see, too, the letters H for hard, B for black, or HB for both hard and black, which are stamped on the pencil.

你可能也看见了，字H代表英语的Hard（硬），字B代表英语的Black（黑），HB就代表又硬又黑。

There were tiny words etched into it.

金冕上面有些雕刻上去的字。

There's a clue, because this is a man with a monogram.

有一个线索, 因为有个字能够揭示他的身份。

The " g" sounds like the " s" in " measure" .

字" g" 的发音和" measure" 中的字" s" 发音有些类似。