The new minuscule featured several ligatures, or conjoined letters, one of which was et, Latin for and.

这种新小字体包含几种连字，或连在起的字母，其中是" et" ，拉丁语的“”。

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

人们连字都，咖啡都煮，这算什么社？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.

办公桌轮用制中使用的桌子被称为公用办公桌，这两词间没有连字符号。

Like, Akshi is not the type of person – he's a commoner, low birth, does not know how to read.

比如，阿克希并是那种人——他出身平民，家境贫寒，连字都识。

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因为连字都几的小孩说的话而受到伤害呢？

Over the years, this ligature morphed into what we now recognize as the and sign, but its formal name, ampersand, has a very informal origin.

多年来，这连字演变成了我们现在所认识的" &" 符号，但它的正式名称" ampersand" ，却有极正式的起源。

And these were handwritten manuscripts, as Paola talked about earlier, with the at symbol and the origins of that ligature for at.

这些是手原稿，正如宝拉前提到的， 包含了“@” 符号及其连字起源。

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

它包含古老的希腊文本，充满了缩连字，起初给我种难以辨认的潦草效果。

This sentence uses " ligature" to refer to a decorative joining of letters in handwriting, and " signature" as the overall mark made by someone.

艺术家仔细地在他们独特签名的细节中设计了美丽的连字。

Once the words are nestled in the places " ordained" for them—" ordained" is a wonderful word that points to the inexorable logic of syntactic structures—they are tied by ligatures of relationships to one another.

旦这些词被安置在为它们“注定”的地方——“注定”是美妙的词，它指出了句法结构的可阻挡的逻辑——它们就被相互关系的连字联系在起。