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English to Chinese translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase:as long as they survive at all
Does language really exist in the singular, like music, or are there only languages which must remain permanently foreign to each other, as long as they survive at all? 真有象音乐那样自成一类的语言？或者说真的有永远无法彼此沟通的孤立的语言能存留下来？
ֻ�� = there are ֻҪ����Ȼ = must �� when �� at all Think twice or thrice, the sentence is not complicate at all. I would take Last Hermit's interpretation with a slight tuning. His translation for this sentence is all right.
02:57 Sep 7, 2004
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02:06 Sep 7, 2004
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01:59 Sep 7, 2004
Does language really exist in the singular, like music, or are there only languages which must remain permanently foreign to each other, as long as they survive at all? �����Dz�����������һ����Զ�һ������ʽ���ڣ������Dz���˵��ֻҪ���Ҵ���������ԣ� ���֮��ͱ������ά�ָ�����̬��?
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foreign to each other: �˴˲���ɵģ��˴�֮��֮��û�й�ϵ�ģ����˴˶����ģ���֪���˴�֮�䲻�ܹ�ͨ���Ӻζ�������˵����ͬ�����ԣ�֮��ģ���ͨ����ʲô��˼�� һ���뷨�����˷�dz�����ѣ����λ���ߴͽ̣�
FYI language (in the) singular = 语言单数形式; languages (plural)语言复数
Explanation: language singular语言,单数形式 languages plural 语言复数(形式)
as long as = for as long as => for as long as they survive at all (because many languages are dying out).
at all = still = for as long as they still survive still survive = 还在存在;仍在存在;还在
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must = 必然
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Put the comma 逗号 after \'languages\', 以便 clarify the meaning a little...
Does language really exist in the singular, like music, or are there only languages, which must remain permanently foreign to each other as long as they survive at all?
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必然相互陌生;必然互相沟不通
foreign to = unfamiliar to someone (对某人)陌生的 eg He\'s a very good person. Unkindness is foreign to his nature.(朗文进阶词典)
foreign to (formal) = Something can be described as foreign to a particular person if it is unknown to them or not within their experience. eg The whole concept of democracy, she claimed, was utterly foreign to the present government. (Cambridge Advanced Learner\'s Dictionary)
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