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Last winter I found an old book about words.去年冬天，我找到了一本关于词语的旧「书」。 It cost almost nothing, so I carried it home.它几乎不要钱，我就把它带回了家。 The writer showed how words move between languages.作者展示了词语如何在语言之间流动。 One chapter told the story of a great empire and its words.有一章讲了一个大「帝国」和它的词语的故事。

Another asked how people engage with a new word.另一章问人们如何与一个新词「接触」。 A third followed estate from a small house to wide land.第三章追踪了「地产」这个词，从一座小房子到广阔的土地。 I did not expect a word book to say much about people.我没想到一本讲词的书会讲这么多关于人的事。 Some words come from one ethnic group and travel far.有些词来自某个「民族的」群体，然后传播到很远的地方。

When a country wants to expand its trade, goods and words travel together.当一个国家想要「扩张」贸易时，货物和词语会一起旅行。 That slow expansion often follows roads, ships and money.这种缓慢的「扩张」往往沿着道路、船只和金钱走。 A word can export an idea, just as a ship exports tea.一个词可以「输出」一个想法，就像船把茶叶「输出」到远方。

Writers extend old words to cover things nobody named before.作家们「延伸」旧词，用来指称以前没人命名的事物。 A small change of meaning can change a whole sentence.意思上的一个小小的「延伸」就能改变整个句子。 Its editor added a long list of examples across three hundred years.这本书的「编辑」加了一份长长的例子清单，横跨三百年。 I finished it and began to edit a list of words I see each day.我读完了它，并开始「编辑」一份我每天见到的词语清单。