He opened it by telling the children: "The prisons in our country are filled with people who can't read or write or speak well.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

And I think many parents believe that if they didn't persist in using these things their children would never learn to speak.

我相信很多父母认为,如果他们不坚持使用这些东西,他们的孩子将永远也学不会说话

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Indeed, all the earth is Mine, but you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel."

因为全地球都是我的,你们要归我作祭司的国度，为圣洁的国家’,这些话你要告诉犹太人“

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Half of the children are from families that speak Spanish at home.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

There are stories, horrible stories, some in the twentieth century, about children who are locked away by insane or evil parents and have never learned to speak.

有一些很可怕的故事,其中的一些讲述的是在二十世纪里,被精神失常或邪恶的父母锁起来的儿童,他们不曾学会说话

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Mister Wilson says about two thousand children now speak Hawaiian.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

If you speak to your children in perfect English, it's very strange.

如果你用完美的英语表达和你的孩子说话,会是非常奇怪的

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She is one of several Goodwill Ambassadors who have lent their fame to this video to speak out on behalf of the millions of children who continue to be cruelly taken advantage of.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

So, Darwin writes, "Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children, while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew or write."

查尔斯·达尔文写到,"人类拥有说话的本能倾向,我们会看到幼儿含糊吐字,然而儿童却并不具有烘焙,酿酒或是写作的本能倾向"

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Now,just two do. That's because - while Spanish is still the language in many homes - the children of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin nations speak English in school and on the street, wear American clothes and prefer upbeat Anglo rock music to their parents' dreamy, old Spanish ballads.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

But, also, there are genetic disorders, some falling under the rubric of what's known as "Specific language impairment," where children are born without the same ability as the rest of us to learn to speak.

但被叫做"特殊言语损伤"的遗传障碍,也能使你失去语言能力,儿童出生便不具有,我们其他人所具有的学习说话的能力

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