And where was the world going if people couldn't even write or brew a pot of coffee?

们连字都不会写，咖啡都不会煮，这算什么社会？啊？欧维琢磨着。

The actual desk we use to do hot-desking is called a 'hot desk' — without the hyphen between the two words.

办公桌轮用制中使用的桌子被称为公用办公桌，这两个词之间没有连字符号。

How could someone of such stature be hurt by a comment about their less than perfect physique by a tiny person who can't spell properly?

拥有这地位的怎么会因为一个连字都不会写几个的小孩说的话而受到伤害呢？

It contained an old Greek text, full of abbreviations and ligatures which at first gave me the effect of an illegible scrawl.

它包含一个古老的希腊文本，充满了缩写和连字，起初给我一种难以辨认的潦草效果。

This sentence uses " ligature" to refer to a decorative joining of letters in handwriting, and " signature" as the overall mark made by someone.

艺术地在他们独特签名的节中设计了一个美丽的连字。

Once the words are nestled in the places " ordained" for them—" ordained" is a wonderful word that points to the inexorable logic of syntactic structures—they are tied by ligatures of relationships to one another.

一旦这些词被安置在为它们“注定”的地方——“注定”是一个美妙的词，它指出了句法结构的不可阻挡的逻辑——它们就被相互关系的连字联系在一起。

So in that sense, historically, the German letter that's written kind of like the  letter B (the Eszett) does historically come from a ligature of the long S and the letter Z even  though it is pronounced as a double S today.

因此从这个意义上说，从历史上看，写法有点像字母 B（Eszett）的德语字母在历史上确实来自长 S 和字母 Z 的连字，尽管今天它的发音是双 S。