A nickname also can be a descriptive name for a person,place or thing.

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A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

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Image is descriptive, but sound is much more suggestive.

图像是描述性的，而声音就更具暗示性了。

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Other cultures may use lots of descriptive words.

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And this is the first descriptive step to developing a theory of laughter.

这是第一个描述性的步骤,来建立笑的理论。

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Now, unlike high school math or in algebra Z where you call things X and Y and Z, in programming, in computer science, you're actually dealing with humans where it's useful to have a variable name that's more descriptive than X and Y and Z.

不像高中数学或者代数中,称为X和Y和，在程序设计和计算机科学里，你实际上是在和人打交道,在这里有个描述性比xyz更强的,变量名称是很重要的。

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