They included several terms that came from other languages like French, German, and Italian and for many of them their pronunciations and meanings maybe as illusive as their spellings.

它们包括来自其他语言的语，比如法语、德语和意大利语，对于他们中的许多人来说，语的发音和意义可能和他们的拼写样虚幻。

TONY FADELL: “Stay beginners, ” well, that's a term that I learned from Steve, and it was all about understanding that when you're in the business that we're in, we get so caught up in our own lingo.

“保持初学者的状态”，是我从史蒂夫那里学来的个语，它的意义就在于理解，当你身处我们所处的行业，我们会被自己的行话所束缚。

The term reciprocal meant nothing in the end.

最终，“互惠”语毫无意义。

If people say they're string theorists, what they mean and what they're doing is kind of hard, it's hard to pin down the meaning of the term.

如果人们说自己是弦理论学家，那么他们所说的含义和他们在做的事情就有点难以捉摸，很难确定个语的确切意义。

This implies that saving and investment can be unequal, and has, therefore, no meaning until these terms have been defined in some special sense.

意味着储蓄和投资可能不相等，因此在语在某种特殊意义上被定义之前没有任何意义。

The technical school intends to furnish training which, in the sense in which we use the term, is not intellectual but practical.

技学校旨在提供培训，在我们使用该语的意义上，不是知识性的而是实践性的。

However, he is not yet a " mature" reader in the sense in which we want to employ the term in this book.

然而，从我们在本书中使用个语的意义上来说，他还不是个“成熟”的读者。

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

冗余是美国写作的大弊病。我们身处个被多余词汇、循环结构、浮夸修饰和无意义语窒息的社会。

11-2-3-1Matter a Meaningless Term Locke had said that substance, or matter, supports or acts as a substitute for the qualities we sense.

11-2-3-1物质是个无意义的语 洛克曾说过，物质或物质支持或替代我们感知的品质。

Such an agenda would make America's liberals more liberal in the British sense of the term.

议程将使美国的自由派在英国语的意义上更显自由化。

Some of the books are great in the special sense of the term that we employed in the last chapter.

从我们在上章中使用的语的特殊意义上来说，有书很棒。

Even a lyric has a " plot" in the sense in which we are using the term here.

甚至首歌词也有个“情节”，就我们在里使用个语的意义而言。

We have stated the rules of analytical reading generally so that they apply to any expository book-any book that conveys knowledge, in the sense in which we have been using that term.

我们已经概括地阐述分析性阅读的规则，以便它们适用于任何说明性书籍——任何传达知识的书籍，就我们直使用该语的意义而言。