英语是日耳曼语系中的一种语言。
我们学习一种语言是为了交流。
当一种语言消失时会发生什么？
扼杀了一种语言，所有这些也就被终止了。
有没有一种语言是世界上每个人都能理解的呢？
Is there a language that can be understood by everyone in the world?
但是，有没有一种语言是世界上每个人都能理解的呢？
But is there a language that can be understood by everyone in the world?
因此，许多笑话如果被翻译成另一种语言就失去了它们的幽默感。
As a result, many jokes lose their humor if they are translated into a different language.
它有六个语系，其中两个只剩下一种语言，几乎这里所有的语言都濒临灭绝。
It holds six language families, two of which have only one remaining language, and almost all of the languages here are endangered.
它是一种语言比图像次要的艺术。
学会说好一种语言需要花很长的时间。
学习一种语言也是学习一种文化。
你会说另一种语言吗？
一些语音识别软件甚至可以识别一种语言的话语，并将其翻译成另一种语言。
Some speech recognition software can even hear words spoken in one language and then translate them into another language.
总之，微笑是一种语言，可以更好地了解我们。
In one word, smiling is a language which can understand us better.
例如，算法带动了金融市场上大量的交易，自动驾驶汽车在城市的街道上随处可见，而我们的智能手机可随时将一种语言翻译成另一种语言。
For example, algorithms carry out huge volumes of trading on our financial markets, self-driving cars are appearing on city streets, and our smartphones are translating from one language into another.
每一种语言的书籍都有——新书，古书，甚至还有一本关于伊拉克历史的书，这本书已经有700年了。
The books are in every language—new books, ancient books, even a book on the history of Iraq that is seven hundred years old.
虽然我们不能用同一种语言交谈，但我们的交流是通过试图打败对方来实现的——在绘画、游戏，甚至在吃饭方面。
Although we couldn't speak to each other in the same language, our communication was made by trying to beat each other—at drawing, at game, even at eating.
后来有人批评这个细节，说只有一种语言。
Some criticized this detail later, saying there was just one tongue.
我开始读这一章，内容是人们如何讲一种语言的方言。
I started reading the chapter, about how everyone speaks some dialect of a language.
他所代表的另一种语言将是萨尔所要寻找的语言的起源。
It is another kind of language that he represents that will be that kind of germ of what Sal is looking for.
也许这是偶然发生的，也许是一种语言深受另一种语言的借用词影响。
Maybe it happened by chance, maybe one language was heavily influenced by borrowed words from the other.
几乎每一种语言都有一个O元音、一个K辅音和一个A 元音。
Almost every language has an O vowel, a K consonant, and an A vowel.
大卫·葛拉多尔认为，只会英语一种语言的毕业生面临着暗淡的经济前景。
David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future.
一个叫“讲座翻译”的应用软件能够轻松地将演讲从一种语言翻译成另一种语言。
One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another.
几乎每一种语言中，无论措辞，电影史最基本的划分都在于无声和有声电影之间。
In nearly every language, however the words are phrased, the most basic division in cinema history lies between films that are mute and films that speak.
如果学生学习另一种语言，学习其他文化，他们毕业时就更能做好迎接全球化的准备。
If students learn another language and study other cultures, they will be more global-ready when they graduate.
但历史语言学的一个分支，涉及到几种不同语言的比较，或同一种语言不同阶段的比较。
But the branch of historical linguistics, involves the comparison of several different languages, or the comparison of different stages of a single language.
最后，我们知道语言会随着时间而变化，如果一种语言要生存下去，这是自然且正常的现象。
Finally, we know that language changes over time, which is natural and normal if a language is to survive.
语言允许说话者说一些特定的事情：描述一种文化观念的词可能无法准确地翻译成另一种语言。
Language allows speakers to say certain things: words that describe a cultural idea may not translate exactly into another language.
它成为了印度的通用语，在这里各种各样的本土语言使得使用任何一种语言作为一个全国系统都有问题。
It became a lingua franca in India, where a variety of indigenous languages made the use of any one of them as a whole-country system problematic.
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