Our first appetizer today is alphabet soup.

我们今天的第一道开胃菜是代号语言。

There's an alphabet soup of possibilities, the V-shaped, the U-shaped or the dreaded L-shaped.

目前有很多种字母（发展形式）的可能性，比如“V”型、“U”型和最令人担心的“L”型。

Today, we're going to discuss the new alphabet soup of variants and subvariants likely to be around this winter…

今天，我们要讨论今年冬天可能会活跃的新变异株和亚变异株的一大堆缩写。

They are something of an alphabet soup.

它们有点像字母汤。

Right - it's a little bit of the alphabet soup.

是的——这有点像字母汤。

Now we're getting into a kind of alphabet soup.

现在我们正在讨论一种字母汤。

I brought alphabet soup. - Pick out the vowels?

我带字母汤来给你 - 你挑出有元音了吗?

You can say, " Wow, that is quite the alphabet soup after your name. But what is it you do exactly? "

你可以说，“哇，这是你名字后面的代号语言。但你到底是做什么的？”

When you have a collection of letters of the alphabet that stand for several words, we can call it an alphabet soup.

当你有一个代表一些单词的字母集合时，我们可以称之为代号语言。

But if you're picturing all these phonemes sloshing around like a bowl of alphabet soup, it's actually a lot more organized than that.

但如果你认为这些音素像一碗字母汤一样乱七八糟，其实比那更有组织性。