西班牙语也许不如普通话那么出名,但是却融入了美国人的日常生活当中——并且还将越来越普遍。
Spanish may not be as prestigious as Mandarin, but it’s an everyday presence in the United States — and will become even more so.
目前普通话已经是美国大学里增长最快的语言课程之一。
Already, Mandarin is one of the fastest-growing language courses in American colleges.
咱们成员中有位成都本地人,五位美国人,他们都说普通话,就我和修两个人不会。
One of the members of our party was a native of Chengdu, and of the five Americans, everyone but Hugh and I spoke Mandarin.
根据应用语言学中心的统计,2008年,美国为学生提供外语教学(包括普通话)的中学只占4%。
According to the Center for Applied Linguistics, in 2008 only 4 percent of middle and high schools that offer foreign-language instruction included Mandarin.
尽管他是美国人,他却能说一口流利的普通话。
Although % he is from the USA, he can speak fluent Mandarin.
西班牙语占据了他们美国业务的70%,而汉语普通话位列急需语言的第二位。
Spanish drives 70% of the U. S. business volume, and Mandarin Chinese is the second most in-demand language.
到浦东,尤其是陆家嘴,都说普通话,说上海话是没有文化的表现,有点像美国土著红种人。
To Pudong, especially Lujiazui, said that the Mandarin, said the Shanghai dialect is not a culture of performance, a bit like a red species of indigenous American people.
蒂莫西·王能说普通话,在美国与中国在中国教练的指导下接受训练。
Wang speaks Mandarin and has trained with Chinese coaches in the United States and China.
美国和英国的失业金融专业人员对未来就业的前景新增了一个乐观的理由,对于那些会说汉语普通话的人来说尤其如此。
Out-of-work finance professionals in the UK and US have a new reason for optimism about their employment prospects - especially if they speak Mandarin.
与“英语普通话”相对立的是基于美式音标的美国英语。
The opposite of Queen's English is American English, which is based on the American phonetic alphabets.
我走向麦克风,为我蹩脚的普通话道歉,并做了一个简短但似乎有些不知所云的致辞:“我是美国人,我的这些朋友是中国人,我们组成了一个乐队。”
'I stepped to the mic, apologized for my bad Chinese and gave a short but rambling thank you:' I am American, my friends here are Chinese. Together, we are one band.
除了要快速学习西班牙语外(散粉思考者注:美国的西裔人口增加快),也许开设普通话或粤语的课程可能对培养我们“天才”的CEO们的商务学校很有用。
In addition to learning Spanish very quickly, a course in Mandarin or Cantonese might prove useful in our "business" schools that have trained our current crop of "genius" CEO's.
今年五岁的她能讲流利的普通话,没有丝毫的美国口音,期待着全球化经济带给她回报。
Now five years old, she speaks Chinese without a trace of an American accent and awaits her reward from the global economy.
英语普通话是指标准的英国英语,进而可被定义为标准的英语语音和语调,与其相对立的是美国英语。
Queen's English refers to the standard British English, and it can be further defined as the standard pronunciation and intonation of British English. Its opposite is American English.
我们可以把英语普通话比作美声唱法,而把美国英语比作流行唱法。
We may compare Queen's English to bel canto songs and American English to popular ones.
或许我不该说话,因为我讲的普通话既不流利又带有怪异的美国腔。
Or perhaps I shouldn't open my mouth because my spoken Mandarin, broken and with an accent, must sound awful to them.
但在美国,人们突然关注起普通话暴露了现阶段严重缺乏相关基础设施的事实。
In the us, the sudden attention on Mandarin has exposed a serious lack of infrastructure.
最好学一门高需求的语言,但低供应的语言,有野心的美国父母正引导孩子学习汉语普通话。
Better to learn a language in high demand, but short supply-one reason, no doubt, ambitious American parents are steering their children towards Mandarin.
我们可以把英语普通话比作美声,而把美国英语比作流行。
We may compare the Queen's English to the bel canto songs and the American English to the popular music.
在最近一集美国深夜秀中,当一个讲着普通话的太空英雄拯救了美国著名喜剧演员StephenColbert后,他说:我的名字叫未来。
"MY NAME is The Future. " So declares a heroic Chinese astronaut in Mandarin after saving the life of Stephen Colbert, an American comedian, during a recent episode of the "Late Show".
有教育界人士称,廿一世纪将会是中国的世界,普通话势取代西班牙语成为美国第二语言。
Someone of the educational circles stated that, the 21st Century will be the world of China and Putonghua will replace Spanish to become American's second language.
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