可别让我讲法语！我已经生疏了。

Don't ask me to speak French! I'm out of practice.

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当一个演讲者用法语开始发言的时候，坐在我周围仅仅有一半的记者带着需要解释的耳机，我怀疑我是不是坐在了一个坐满了讲法语人的屋子里。

A speaker has just begun talking in French, and only about half of the journalists sitting around me have put on their headphones for interpretation. I doubt I am in a room full of francophones.

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知道我不会讲法语后，他问道：“这些是法语写的文件？”

Aware that I don’t speak French, he asked, “Are these French documents?”

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And you-- And now a French speaker, of course, hears "Je ne sais pas."

当然,讲法语的人听到"我不知道"时,是会感觉到停顿的

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And it's not a la-di-dah thing where--I'll tell you, once there was a student in there who had really fantastic French and I said, "Why is your French so good?"

其实也不是那么严格要求的,我给你们讲,以前有个学生法语特好,我就问他你法语怎么这么好啊

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Well, start anywhere you want. Breton, which is a language that has nothing to do with French at all-- here, oh I've got a really funny story I was going to tell about a Breton priest, a French speaking Breton priest, but that's for another day.

从哪开始都行,布列塔尼语,这个语言和法语没有任何关系,这,我准备讲一个特别有意思的故事,是关于一个布列塔尼牧师,说法语的布列塔尼牧师,不过这以后再讲了

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