And so,to the Germans of Pennsylvania, Saint Nicholas or Pelznickel was a man dressed in fur who came once a year with gifts for good children.Soon, people began to feel that the love and kindness Pelznickel brought should be part of a celebration honoring the Christkindl, as the Germans called the Christ child.
VOA: special.2009.12.20
And somebody as a joke once asked her, "How do you feel living in this village after all these years?"
有个人开玩笑问她,"你在我们村住这么多年觉得怎么样"
See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.
瞧,即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。
Then the little ones go under the blow dryer. "They are so happy once they're de-oiled and it actually makes you feel pretty good that this part of the operation is being done to save these animals."
VOA: standard.2010.06.08
So, the guys in the back turn and run, which is the only thing you can possibly do once you feel our phalanx is broken.
然后,后面的人转过身去,夺路而逃,当你感到方阵快要被打散时,你唯一可能做的就是逃跑
and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.
然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言
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