If you are English and someone says to you, ?The French are your brothers?, your first instinctive feeling will be, ?Nonsense.

如果你是一个英国人，有一个人对你说：法国人是你的兄弟。

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It all adds up to a simulacrum of French village life - but without the tedium, because you are in the epicentre of civilisation.

这全都构成了法国乡村生活的假象，不过并没有乡村生活的单调，因为你正身处文明的中心。

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As you know the French do this, the Russians do this and the Japanese are now doing this.

你们知道法国人就是这样做，还有俄罗斯人，现在日本人也这样做。

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You can ask them to read French and to read Spanish and you can find different locations in the brain that are involved in processing of those different languages.

如果让他看法语和西班牙语,我们就能看到不同的大脑区域,对应不同的语言系统

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The figure you are quoting in New York times which came out of a report published by a French economist who lives in India John Kenneth. And the article was by Sangota, the New York Times editor.

你从纽约时报,某篇报道上摘下来的数据,出自一名住在印度的法国经济学家,之手，他叫约翰·克南斯,该文章由纽约时报的圣郭特所编辑。

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The French, too, are briefing that "you cannot have eurobonds while maintaining national economic and budgetary policies".

BBC: Eurozone crisis: What Germany can learn from Italy

Even though the United States took possession of New Orleans from the French in 1803, there are times when you will imagine yourself in Europe.

BBC: Travelling to New Orleans, now and in 1858

"You cannot get over the French and Dutch problems while Chirac and Balkenende are still in government, " says the leader of the Liberal group in the European Parliament, Graham Watson.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Treaty woes thwart EU ambitions