Could you say that again in words of one syllable?

你能用很简单的言语把这再说一遍吗？

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After I had been married in the provincial capital, I wrote a letter to my family in words of one syllable.

我在省城结了婚，只给家里草草写了一封信，母亲接信后，给我们汇来一千元，汇款单的留言栏上留了几个黑点。

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The characters of the change of words and expression in this period include two points. One is the new words are mainly double-syllable words.

这一时期的词语变化的特点主要有二个：一是所产生的新词主要是双音词；

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Finally, note that there are just 14 words in the revised sentence, compared with 19 in the original, and that nine of them are one-syllable, three are two-syllable and two are three-syllable.

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