They borrow the characters from what had been already something quite close to an alphabet and had only a relatively small number.

他们从十分接近字母系统的书写体系中,借来字符使用,而这些字符相对较少

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But their alphabet has got nothing to do with Mycenae; this is a new thing altogether.

但是他们的字母系统与迈锡尼的没有关系,它完全是一个全新的东西

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This might look a little cryptic at first, but it turns there is some very obvious patterns here, for instance. According to this chart, if you want to represent the letter A A in the so called ASCII system, what number do you actually use to do so?

起初，它看起来有点神秘，但你会发现它有一些明显的对应模式，这里就有例子，根据图表，在所谓的ASCII系统中,你想表示字母，你该用哪些数字呢？

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You can read every sound that is made, and they produced their alphabet.

就可以读出每一个能发的元音,他们还创造出了他们的字母系统

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