All you had to know is the word "Dog" and the plural morpheme 's' and you could put them together to create a word.

你只需知道"狗"这个词以,及复数语素'们',你可以将它们组合在一起来创造出一个词

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And "Dog" Is also a morpheme, but not always because there are single morphemes and then there are words that are composed of many morphemes.

狗"也是一个语素,但词和语素并不总是相同,因为语素是独立的,但词却可以由很多语素组成

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For a language like English, that creature there is referred to with the morpheme "Dog."

对于像英语这样的语言,那种生物被表示为语素"狗"

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And what a morpheme is is the smallest meaningful unit in a language.

语素是语言中最小的意义单位

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I'm talking about words but the more technical term is "Morpheme."

我说的是词,但更专业的术语则叫做"语素"

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