6到8段DICK.docx

6到8段1、Compromising is something that speakers of more than one language understand.折中就是让使用不同语言的说话者能够理解的方法。2、When there are no words in another language for what you want to say, you make adjustments and try to approximate.当你想说的话不能用另一种语言表达时，你做出调整并且试着去接近另一种语言。Adjust v. 调节，调整Adjustable adv. 可调节的，可调整的approximation n，近似值;粗略估算;类似事物approximate to sty，接近;大体是approximately adv.大概;大约3、English and Welsh speakers make adjustments regarding the color spectrum in the grey/green/blue/brown range, since English has four words and Welsh has three.英国人和威尔士人根据需要在灰色、绿色、蓝色和棕色范围内对色彩进行调整，因为英语中有四种，威尔士语中只有三种。本句为复合句，句子主干为English and Welsh speakers make adjustments。介词短语regarding the color spectrum in the grey/green/blue/brown range作状语，since引导原因状语从句4、And even where words do exist, compromises still need to be made. 有时在另一种语言中存在对应的词汇，也需要采用折中的方法5、The flat breads of Central Asia are a long way away from Mother’ Pride white sliced toasties, yet the word“ bread ”has to serve for both.中亚的扁平面包和西方的Mother’ Pride 白吐司片就是完全不同的东西，但这两种文化都用bread这个词。serve for可当……使用6、Inevitably, the spread of English means that millions of people are adding another language to their own and are learning how to negotiate cultural and linguistic differences. 英语的广泛使用必然会使数百万人把另外种语言融人到自己的母语中，并学会如何协调文化和语言的差异inevitable adj.不可避免的;不能防止的7、This is an essential skill in today’s hybrid world , particularly now when the need for international understanding has rarely been so important.这是当今混合社会中一个必备的技能，特别是在国际间的理解和沟通变得如此重要的今天。8、But even as more people become multilingual, so native English speakers are losing out, for they are becoming ever more monolingual , and hence increasingly unaware of the differences between cultures that languages reveal.但是即便是更多的人能够使用多种语言，以英语为母语的人却因此逐渐失去了他们的优势，因为他们更倾向于使用单一语言,因此他们就越来越无法意识到语言显现出来的文化间的差异。?lose out失去优势;被..取代: unaware of没有意识到9、Communicating in another language involves not only linguistic skills, but the ability to think differently, to enter into another culture’s mentality and shape language accordingly.折中