He published a treatise that he had written earlier on grammar, inventing his own system for the understanding and the learning of the Latin language.

发表了一篇他之前写的关于语法的论文，在这篇论文中他创建了自己的一套理解和学习,拉丁文的体系。

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Let's choose Latin, the language of scholarship, and so iron became Fe for ferrum and lead became Pb for plumbum and gold is Au for aurum and so on.

那就选拉丁文吧，用于学术的语言，所以，iron就变成了Fe，表示铁元素,铅变成了，Pb，表示铅元素,金变成了Au，表示金元素，等等。

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