German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Col Gaddafi's speech was "very, very appalling" and "amounted to him declaring war on his own people".

德国名誉校长Angela Merkel说卡扎菲的演讲是“非常非常的令人吃惊”，“足以表示他想他的民众宣战了。”

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Trikoton, a German fashion house, allows you to buy clothes that reflect the sound of your voice (a computer turns your speech patterns into knitting patterns).

在德国流行服饰店Trikoton，你能买到反映你声音的衣服(通过计算机把你的说话方式转化为针织图案)。

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The speech of Germans living along the Dutch border sounds just like Dutch and can be understood without difficulty by their neighbors across the border, whose speech, in turn, is "very German".

住在德荷边境的德国人说的话听起来就像荷兰语，而且他们的荷兰邻居也能轻松理解。反过来，那些荷兰邻居的话听起来也“非常德语”。

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In a speech before the German parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the new regulations on what she called "destructive" behavior by financial markets.

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Her writing of the harshness of life in a small, German-speaking Romanian village spoke of corruption and repression and her fight for free speech.

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The Bloomberg name is an Anglicisation of Blumberg, in Yiddish, or German, and the Cameron speech started with some solid historical roots for the European project.

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German papers were also critical of the speech, with Carsten Volkery writing on the website of the weekly Spiegel that David Cameron was not able to get rid of "the old curse of the Tories", who were constantly preoccupied with Europe.

BBC: Cameron speech heats up debate in European press

Downing Street said Mr Cameron would be holding talks with EU counterparts ahead of his speech, and had spoken to the German and Dutch leaders at the weekend.

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