I cannot tell you her name, because her husband is a powerful man in the French government.

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And it's not a la-di-dah thing where--I'll tell you, once there was a student in there who had really fantastic French and I said, "Why is your French so good?"

其实也不是那么严格要求的,我给你们讲,以前有个学生法语特好,我就问他你法语怎么这么好啊

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Can you tell us about French food?

你能跟我们讲讲法国菜吗？

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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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Well, start anywhere you want. Breton, which is a language that has nothing to do with French at all-- here, oh I've got a really funny story I was going to tell about a Breton priest, a French speaking Breton priest, but that's for another day.

从哪开始都行,布列塔尼语,这个语言和法语没有任何关系,这,我准备讲一个特别有意思的故事,是关于一个布列塔尼牧师,说法语的布列塔尼牧师,不过这以后再讲了

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And at the end of the movie he says, "You know, there are zese very bad rumors about me, and that I sang for zee German troops, and I want to tell you I only sang for zee boys," that is, for the French interned soldiers in Germany then.

影片最后他说,"知道吗,最近有些关于我的谣言,说我给德军唱歌,我想告诉你我只给我们的小伙子们唱",指的是在德国的被俘法军

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