The town’s name Spa had originally been Espa which meant “fountain” in the French dialect of the area.

该镇的名称Spa最初是Espa，在法语方言中义为“泉水”。

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Alsace is a cultural hybrid with its Germanic dialect and French sense of fashion, its love of foie gras and fine wine, beer and sauerkraut.

阿尔萨斯是一种融合了日耳曼方言和法国时尚触觉的文化，热爱鹅肝和美酒、啤酒和(德国)泡菜。

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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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In Alsace almost everybody, as you will see later, spoke German dialect. But it didn't mean, if you asked somebody, "Are you French?"

在阿尔萨斯基本上每个人,你以后就知道,说一种德语方言,但也不是说,你要问别人,"你是法国人吗"

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Now, Alsatians were French, even though many of them spoke German dialect.

阿尔萨斯人是法国人,虽然他们很多人说德国方言

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The second was the recent refusal by President Jacques Chirac to change the French constitution to give recognition to regional languages such as Corsican, a dialect closer to Italian than French.

ECONOMIST: Corsica