With the help of Murat, the village school teacher who spoke a few words of English, I managed to explain that I had cycled all the way from Britain.

在他帮助下，我设法向他们说明我是怎样从英国一路骑自行车来到这儿。

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At the university's foreign language department I asked the students how they had managed to learn such good English.

在大学的外语系，我问学生，你们是怎样设法来学好英语的？

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In a remarkable show of efficiency (to say nothing of creativity), the agency managed to find 1, 100 words and phrases in English and nearly 600 in Urdu.

在他们令人咂舌的高效下(尽管毫无创造性可言)，这个机构总算列入了1,100个英语单词及短语和接近600个乌尔都语词。

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Although I always managed to find an English equivalent for each French word I translated, the whole thing seemed to crumble under its own weight when I attempted to reunite its constituent parts.

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He walks himself around a nearby park when employees go outside to smoke, responds to commands spoken in English, German and Polish, and has even managed to win over employees who suffer allergies and a fear of dogs.

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He probably won't forgive me for saying that a pass in English is not guaranteed as he has managed to spell the amateur bit of amateur jockey wrong in his account profile.

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