But the women looked out from the heated, blind intercourse of farm-life, to the spoken world beyond.

但女性从热烘烘的、闭眼运转的乡土生活中抬起了头，望向那喧嚣的世界。

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She has spoken at the United Nations, met world leaders, and written a book, I Am Malala.

她在联合国发表过演讲，会见过世界各国领导人，还写过一本书——《我是马拉拉》。

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French is spoken in many parts of the world.

世界上许多地方都说法语。

《牛津词典》

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

The nation, a former Australian colony, has a rich culture, where more than 850 indigenous languages are spoken, more than 10 percent of the world's total languages.

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These four groups account for more than a third of the 7, 000 or so tongues spoken around the world today.

ECONOMIST: The evolution of language

And yet, by some estimates, Esperanto still has more speakers than six thousand of the languages spoken around the world today, including approximately a thousand native speakers (among them George Soros) who learned it as their first language.

NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners

Secretary Clinton has spoken to a number of world leaders in the last couple of days.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House