Piano（钢琴）这个词是pianoforte（钢琴）的简称，是意大利语中“柔和”和“响亮”两个词的组合。
The word piano is short for pianoforte, a combination of the Italian words for soft and loud.
曾经有一段时间，社会压力使威尔士语逐渐消亡，但经过多年的努力，威尔士语现在再次成为威尔士人生活中活跃的一部分。
There was a time when social pressures were killing off the Welsh language, but after years of efforts, it is now an active part of Welsh life again.
她试图打破阻碍南美洲西班牙语民族之间思想交流的国界壁垒。
She tried to break through the national barriers that hindered the exchange of ideas among the Spanish speaking peoples of South America.
我在夜校班学过西班牙语会话。
她的意大利语说得和意大利人一样。
她旅居墨西哥时顺便学会了西班牙语。
他给同事们上意大利语课。
他说一口流利的意大利语。
讲英语的人现在与他们讲西班牙语的邻居和睦相处。
English speakers now coexist peacefully with their Spanish-speaking neighbours.
所以我们正力求平衡，让老师们感觉到口语和书面语同样重要。
So we're trying to redress the balance and to give teachers a sense that both spoken and written language are equally important.
在流浪途中，他学会了西班牙语、意大利语、法语和一点点俄语。
On his wanderings he's picked up Spanish, Italian, French and a smattering of Russian.
我们真是幸运极了，因为我的朋友住在岛上而且希腊语说得很流利。
We were doubly lucky inasmuch as my friend was living on the island and spoke Greek fluently.
千言万语涌上心头。
也许他只会说鲸语。
他在旧金山长大，从移民父母那里学会了西班牙语。
Growing up in San Francisco, he learnt Spanish from his immigrant parents.
“文化”这个词来自拉丁语“colere”，字面意思是“培养”。
The word "culture" comes from the Latin "colere", which literally means "to cultivate".
知更鸟认为他对他们胡言乱语，因为他们不够聪明，听不懂鸟类的语言。
The robin thought he spoke this gibberish to them because they were not intelligent enough to understand feathered speech.
虽然荷兰语是官方语言，但阿姆斯特丹的大多数人都说英语，而且很乐意帮你指路。
Although Dutch is the official language, most people in Amsterdam speak English and are happy to help you with directions.
莎士比亚可能就读于斯特拉特福德的文法学校，在那里他学习拉丁语，阅读古典文学。
Shakespeare probably attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read classical literature.
我的儿子罗南看着我，挑起一侧眉毛。他的眼睛明亮而专注。罗南在爱尔兰语中的意思是“小海豹”，这很适合他。
My son, Ronan, looks at me and raises one eyebrow. His eyes are bright and focused. Ronan means "little seal" in Irish and it suits him.
“ElNino（厄尔尼诺）”在西班牙语中是“孩子”的意思，当南太平洋表层海水异常变暖时，会出现厄尔尼诺现象。
El Nino, Spanish for "the child", occurs when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm.
这是一个练习西班牙语的好机会。
咿呀学语是人类婴儿学习说话的方式。
一张图片胜过千言万语，它能帮助你发挥想象力。
A picture is worth a thousand words and helps you use your imagination.
每一张图片，就像中间的图片一样，也胜过千言万语。
Each picture, just like the central picture, is also worth a thousand words.
她的母亲是墨西哥人，父亲是美国人，因此她既会说西班牙语，又会说英语。
Her mother is Mexican and her father is American, so she can speak both Spanish and English.
此外，杨绛完成了《堂吉诃德》的翻译，成为首个翻译西班牙语原著全书的中国人。
What's more, Yang finished a translation of Don Quixote. This made her the first Chinese to translate a whole book from Spanish.
安德鲁不怎么会说西班牙语，但他发现沟通不是问题。“你用爱来沟通。”他在大学网站上的一篇文章里如是说。
Andrew doesn't speak much Spanish, but he found communication wasn't a problem. "You communicated with love," according to an article on his university's website.
西班牙的席尔波语是一种口哨语言，只有四个元音和四个辅音。几英里外都能听到它的声音，它就像鸟儿的鸣叫。
Spanish Silbo, a whistle language, has only four vowel and four consonant sounds. Audible for miles, it resembles bird calls.
语颇隽永，耐人寻味。
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