Afrikaans
- n.南非荷兰语;阿非利堪斯语
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The difficulty of suddenly switching from Afrikaans to english .
从南非荷兰语突然转为英语所带来的困难。
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We ran articles in Afrikaans in the paper .
我们在报上刊登用南非荷兰语写的文章。
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An Afrikaans couple live in one of the houses opposite .
有一对南非白人夫妇住在对面的一幢房子里。
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Scarcely used in administration , Afrikaans just isn 't much use anymore .
作为一门官方很少使用的语言,阿非利卡语事实上已经用处不大了。
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Afrikaans , which became an official language distinct from Dutch only in 1925 , may not survive another 87 years .
阿非利卡语(不同于荷兰语)1925年成为南非的官方语言之一,而今,这门语言可能“活不过”下一个87年。
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The 17th century Dutch settlers in South Africa ended up speaking Afrikaans , a substantially different language .
17世纪起在南非定居下来的荷兰人最终说的是南非荷兰语(afrikaan),那是一种与荷兰语完全不同的语言。
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Afrikaans , dutch , english , flemish , and German are the more important languages within the West Germanic grouping .
南非语、荷兰语、英语、法兰德斯语、及德语则属西日耳曼语的几个重要语言。
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A white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans .
一个海角省的白种人土著,他是荷兰移民者的后裔并且说南非公用荷兰语。
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In fact the word comes from Afrikaans ( via Dutch ) and the animal was given the name because of a misidentification .
实际上,这个词来自南非荷兰语(通过荷兰),这种动物是因为误认而得名的。
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It was there that he urged fellow prisoners to learn Afrikaans , on the theory you could better defeat your enemy if you spoke their language .
在监狱里,他鼓励狱友们学习南非荷兰语。他的理论是,如果会说敌人的语言,便有更大的胜算战胜敌人。
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We lived in the Netherlands , so we spoke Dutch to the Afrikaners , and they spoke Afrikaans back .
我们曾经生活在荷兰,所以要跟这些阿非利卡人说荷兰语,他们则跟我们说阿非利卡语(Afrikaans,在南非使用的荷兰语)。
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Trek was borrowed into English in South Africa , where the word was used by speakers of Afrikaans for a journey by ox wagon .
Trek这个词在南非被借入英语,在南非讲南非荷兰语的人用来指用牛车所进行的旅行。
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In Perth in Australia , de Vries found whole extended families of Afrikaners , served by Dutch Reformed churches preaching in Afrikaans .
在澳大利亚珀斯,德弗里斯找到了一些庞大的阿非利卡家庭,在当地,有讲阿非利卡语的荷兰归正会为他们服务。
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They also said the rabbit represented the pressure of finishing the sculpture on time because haas - the word for rabbit in the Dutch-based Afrikaans language - also means haste .
他们还说,这只兔子代表按时完成雕像的压力。因为在以荷兰语为基础的阿非利堪斯语中,haas代表兔子,同时这个单词还有匆忙的意思。
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Writers are an esteemed Afrikaner caste , yet Afrikaans authors ( including the half-Afrikaner J.M. Coetzee ) increasingly publish in English .
阿非利卡语作家是一个备受尊重的群体,但他们(包括有着一半阿非利卡血统的J•M•库切(J.M.Coetzee))开始越来越多地用英语发表作品。
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Afrikaans is an offshoot of dutch .
南非荷兰语是荷兰语的一个分支。
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In Afrikaans , it 's pronounced Shar-leeze Thrawn , but she 's opted for Ther-in as she thinks it 's easier to say .
在南非荷兰语中,她的名字发音为查理兹?斯隆,但她选择读成赛琳,因为她觉得这样发音更容易。
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In an early sign of how he would reach across the political and racial divide , Mr. Mandela taught himself Afrikaans and used the language to charm his guards-and elicit more sympathetic treatment .
曼德拉自学了南非白人使用的荷兰语,用这种语言感化他的看守,并获得了更好的待遇,这是显示他将如何跨越政治和种族分歧的早期信号。
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Scarcely used in administration , Afrikaans just isn 't much use anymore . Even at Stellenbosch University , the Afrikaner Oxford , only about 10 per cent of lectures are now in Afrikaans .
甚至在斯坦陵布什大学(StellenboschUniversity,阿非利卡人的牛津大学(Oxford)),如今也只有大约10%的课程使用阿非利卡语授课。
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His answer - a wonderful book of deep reportage - is about to appear as Afrikaners in Dutch , and Rigtingbedonnerd ( " Directionless , " roughly ) in Afrikaans .
他通过一本优秀的纪实类图书给出了答案。这本书即将上市,荷兰语版的书名为《阿非利卡人》(Afrikaners),阿非利卡语版的书名为《迷失》(阿非利卡语原文为Rigtingbedonnerd,意为失去方向)。