斯瓦西里语是口语,特别是在南部。
作为坦桑尼亚港口城市的名字,在斯瓦西里语中的意思是“放下你的心”。
The very name of the Tanzanian port means “lay down your heart” in Swahili.
说得轻一点我有点担心,我身边的男人用斯瓦西里语说,你有什么不好吗?
I was a bit worried, to say the least. The man next to me said in Swahili, "What's the problem?"
所以当第一群农民妇女们不假思索就用斯瓦西里语展开热烈讨论时我很惊讶。
So I was surprised when our first group of women farmers burst into a rapid-fire discussion in Swahili without hesitation.
正如一句斯瓦西里语语格言说的那样,当大家大象打架时,遭殃的却是小草。
When elephants fight, goes a Swahili saying, it's the grass that suffers.
斯瓦西里语是沿海地区的方言,在刚果,凡是今天说这种方言的地方,均是代理商们的势力所达之处。
The limits of their range, in Congo, are the limits of where the native coast language, Kiswahili, is spoken today.
但是投票很大程度上是以种族和语言为界的。东部的斯瓦西里语使用者选的是卡比拉而西部林加拉语使用者大多则反对他。
But voting was largely on ethnic and linguistic lines, with the Swahili-speaking east voting for Mr Kabila and the Lingala-speaking west largely rejecting him.
57种并仍在增加的语言互译支持,Google翻译让我们只需花费些许努力就能在乌尔都语及斯瓦西里语之间无缝畅游。
Now on 57 languages as of this month and counting, Google Translate seeks to help us move seamlessly between Urdu and Swahili with little effort.
我们把我们的发现给当地村民看的时候,他们都很惊讶,世界上现在终于有一种动物用斯瓦西里语的Magombera命名了。
"When we presented our findings to the local village people they were just amazed that the world now knows an animal by the Swahili name Magombera," he said.
但是Kamusi作为一个综合性的斯瓦西里语资源库,同时还承载着记录其他上千种非洲语言的使命,它需要大量的钱,需要团体赞助,需要学术基金。
But to serve as a comprehensive Swahili resource, and to expand to document thousands of other African languages, Kamusi would require substantial foundation, corporate or academic funding.
除此之外,普西还有一项重任在肩,即保管22个装满野外科考数据的档案柜,这些用英语或斯瓦西里语(Swahili)记录的笔记本、日记和表格就是五十年冈贝黑猩猩研究的最好见证。
Among other duties, she curates the 22 file cabinets full of field data—the notebooks and journal pages and check sheets, some in English, some in Swahili—from 50 years of chimp study at Gombe.
除此之外,普西还有一项重任在肩,即保管22个装满野外科考数据的档案柜,这些用英语或斯瓦西里语(Swahili)记录的笔记本、日记和表格就是五十年冈贝黑猩猩研究的最好见证。
Among other duties, she curates the 22 file cabinets full of field data—the notebooks and journal pages and check sheets, some in English, some in Swahili—from 50 years of chimp study at Gombe.
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