马克思是德国人,德语是他的母语,恩格斯也一样。
Marx came from Germany and German was his native language. So it was with Engels.
住在德荷边境的德国人说的话听起来就像荷兰语,而且他们的荷兰邻居也能轻松理解。反过来,那些荷兰邻居的话听起来也“非常德语”。
The speech of Germans living along the Dutch border sounds just like Dutch and can be understood without difficulty by their neighbors across the border, whose speech, in turn, is "very German".
讲法语的瑞士人就是再版法国人,不过瑞士的食物没有法国那么乏味,对当局的态度也没有法国那么随便;讲德语的瑞士人跟德国人比是青出于蓝,他们比德国人理严肃、死板而古里古怪。
The former are almost exactly like the French, except having a blander cuisine and more respect for authority, the latter being more like the Germans except even more stiff, rigid and cranky.
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