A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.

舌头长是手短的标志。

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The tongue was so wide and so long that it looked like a country road.

这条舌头又宽又长，看上去就像一条乡间小路。

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'mother tongue' is not a coincidental phrase - people have long imagined that the close bond between mother and child meant that children acquire language from their mothers, not their fathers.

“母语”不是与字面一致的一个词——很多人长期假设：母子之间的亲密纽带，可能意味着孩子从母亲而不是父亲那里习得语言。

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Unfortunately, the Leica's take-up spool needs a long tapering tongue of film, which users must wedge under a spring clip on the spool's barrel before manually wrapping a few turns of film around it.

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When you speak in this language for such a long time your tongue deadens, it doesn't move very well.

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On clear days you will probably want to head straight out onto the observatory's wraparound terrace, which looks out over a rippling sea of pearly-white summits, deep into Italy, Germany and France and over the 22km-long tongue of the Aletsch Glacier, the longest of its kind in the Alps and a Unesco World Heritage site.

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