If children are so well able to learn their mother tongue, it is precisely because they plunge themselves into the sea of language instead of reading a few textbooks only.

孩子们之所以能把自己的母语学好，恰恰是因为他们投身于语言的海洋之中，而不单单是读几本教科书而已。

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What's interesting about the Song of the Sea is that here the Hebrews adopt the language of Canaanite myth and apply it to Yahweh.

关于海之歌有趣之处在于，希伯来人采用了迦南神话的语言，并把它应用到耶和华身上。

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At sea English is the international language of communication.

在海上，英语是一种国际交流的语言。

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What's interesting about the Song of the Sea, this poetic fragment in Exodus 15, is that here the Hebrews adopt the language of Canaanite myth and apply it to Yahweh.

关于海之歌那首出现在《出埃及记》15中的残诗,有趣的是，犹太人改编了迦南人的神话,套用在耶和华的身上。

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English is the international language of the sea so we don't really have to learn another language although we do pick up nautical terms in different languages and some pilots are multi-lingual and some are not, it's not desperately important that you know another language.

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The written evidence is thin to non-existent, and the import of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the few sources for the period that is mainly in a Semitic language, is hotly contested.

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Just as they sought to master the language of the sea in the novels of Patrick O'Brian ( Obituary, January 15th), so they patiently deciphered the fantastic world of Mr Powell's England. (An American newspaper thoughtfully explained that he preferred to have his name pronounced to rhyme with Lowell.) Perhaps they took it seriously.

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