One day, I was taking part in an English-speaking competition.

有一天，我参加了一个英语演讲比赛。

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This is true whether we are speaking of melting ice caps in one part of the world or rising unemployment in another.

无论是极地冰盖融化，或是失业率上升，都在世界范围内有着深刻的影响。

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It links a community with its past, with its heritage, and so if one stops speaking his language, he loses a part of himself.

方言维系着一个族群的过去，绑定着一个族群的遗产，如果一个人不再用自己的方言，他就部分地迷失了自己。

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Numerous Spanish celebrities and well known public figures are taking part in a marathon 48-hour reading session of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most famous literary works, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

BBC: Marathon read for Don Quixote