And where was the world going if people couldn't even write or brew a pot of coffee?

人们连都不会写，咖啡都不会煮，这算什么社会？啊？欧维琢磨着。

The actual desk we use to do hot-desking is called a 'hot desk' — without the hyphen between the two words.

办桌轮制中使的桌子被称办桌，这两个词之间没有连符号。

How could someone of such stature be hurt by a comment about their less than perfect physique by a tiny person who can't spell properly?

拥有这样地位的人怎么会因一个连都不会写几个的小孩说的话而受到伤害呢？

It contained an old Greek text, full of abbreviations and ligatures which at first gave me the effect of an illegible scrawl.

它包含一个古老的希腊文本，充满了缩写和连，起初给我一种难以辨认的潦草效果。

So in that sense, historically, the German letter that's written kind of like the  letter B (the Eszett) does historically come from a ligature of the long S and the letter Z even  though it is pronounced as a double S today.

因此从这个意义上说，从历史上看，写法有点像母 B（Eszett）的德语母在历史上确实来自长 S 和母 Z 的连，尽管今天它的发音是双 S。