One student told me that her roommate's local dialect sounded as foreign to her as French or German.

一个学生曾告诉我，她的室友讲的方言听起来就像是外语，和听法语和德语一样让人摸不着头脑。

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Student: No, Sir, but you said yesterday that everything you told me went in one ear and out the other, so I am trying to stop it.

学生：没有，先生。但是你昨天说你对我说的每件事都是一个耳朵进一个耳朵出，所以我想阻止这种状况。

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When I was a student here at Princeton, graduating, if you told me I was going to have any one of those three jobs at some point of my career, I would consider that an extraodianry stroke of good luck.

在我还在普林斯顿上学的时候，毕业的时候如果你跟我说,我将在职业生涯的某一点,拥有这三个职位中的一个，我就会觉得简直是,太幸运了。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Many young people are now reared to speak only English, and one teen-age student told me that even adults who once spoke only Tamil, the local language, were beginning to speak Tanglish with their children.

NEWYORKER: Globish For Beginners