There are the people who speak after they think and the people who think while they're speaking. Mike definitely belongs in the latter category.

有些人先想后说，有些人边想边说。迈克当然属于后一类人。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman.

对知更鸟说知更鸟的语言，就像对法国人说法语。

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If a student is poor at speaking English, he should catch every chance to open his mouth and speak.

如果学生不擅长英语口语，他应该抓住每个开口说英语的机会。

youdao

Yeats, I said, wanted to speak for and to the Irish people, as well as to explain Ireland and Irishness to an English-speaking world abroad.

我认为，叶芝，想为爱尔兰人写诗，并把爱尔兰及其民族特色,介绍给整个英语世界。

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I think that,generally speaking -and Bob Shiller can speak to this with a lot more authority than I can this bubble was not something that should have surprised people.

我想,总的来说,希勒来讲这个话题,比我有权威的多,次贷泡沫,不是突然的

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Although it's not true that you are speaking French-- let's suppose that you know how to speak French-- it's still true of you while you're asleep that you can or could speak French.

虽然你并不在说法语-,先假设你会说法语-,但是确实在你睡觉时,你是有可能开口说法语的。

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As a result, northern officers who only speak Dari have to use translators when in the Pushtu-speaking south.

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