多年以来，人们写的关于打手势的废话，比演讲的任何其它方面的都要多。
Over the years, more nonsense has been written about gesturing than about any other aspect of speech delivery.
我们总以为，我们谈话和打手势的方式是“自然的”，而觉得那些行为方式与我们不同的人是有点态度草率。
We assume that our way of talking and gesturing is "natural" and that those who do things differently are somehow playing with nature.
她打手势示意把锁着的前门打开。
她打手势要他来加入他们的活动。
一个戴纸帽的男子在拼命地打手势。
A man with a paper hat upon his head was gesticulating wildly.
那位建筑师对着地上的一个洞打手势。
突然，安妮的爸爸停下来，打手势让她不要动。
Suddenly Annie's father stopped and gestured for her to be still.
我们打手势是因为它是我们语言的一部分。
在另一个实验中，他让温和的电击作用在人的皮肤上并让实验者一感觉到就打手势。
In another experiment he applied a mild shock to people's skin and had them gesture as soon as they felt it.
然后，她突然因害怕而变得不舒服，将电视的声音调高， 向门打手势，告诉我女房东很可能在听我们谈话。
Then, quite suddenly, she looks sick with fear and switches the TV on at a high volume, motioning to the door and telling me the landlady is probably listening at it.
广告以一位在出差中的失聪者跟妻子打手势作为结束。
The AD ends with a deaf man signing to his wife while on a business trip.
果真如此的话，通过观察与我们亲缘关系最近的灵长类动物之间的沟通交流，就可能从中发现某些线索，证明人类语言到底是怎样从咕哝有声或者打手势进化而来的。
If so, it should be possible to find clues about how human language evolved from grunts or gestures by observing the communication of our close primate relatives.
杨家河，正是20多岁的年纪，我们一到达门前，他即打手势叫我跟上他，然后我们向下走过一大段的混凝土楼梯。
Upon arrival, Yang, who is in his twenties, gestured for me to follow him and we headed down a series of wide concrete steps.
支努干上30岁的急诊护士托尼·凯尔，打手势给正救治受伤的士兵的两名小组成员，他们会在两分钟降落。
Emergency nurse, Tony Kyle, 30, signals to other members of the team treating two wounded soldiers onboard a Chinook that they'll be landing in two minutes.
8月25日，AbuSlim，叛军与忠于卡扎菲的支持者交战，一叛军士兵向战友打手势示意。
A rebel soldier motions to fellow fighters during clashes with Gaddafi loyalists in Abu Slim, August 25, 2011.
他向老妇人打手势，但老妇人却拿出一根棍子来打他的马，并把他们赶走。
He made signs to the old woman, but she took up a stick, and struck his horse and drove them away.
他打手势来强调他的讲话。
打手势是一种非言语的表达方式。
我跟司机又是打手势又是画图，身边还围了一群人，最后终于说服司机让我在他开车的时候给他指路。
So by hand signs, drawing on a paper and having a crowd gather around the driver and me, I finally persuaded the driver to drive with me showing him.
我站起来踮着脚向壁橱走去，途中我顺手抓了条搭在椅背上的抹布，突然想起这是个不错的武器，并且打手势示意让我家的狗里克紧跟在我后面。
I get up and tiptoe toward the cupboard. Along the way I grab a dish towel off the back of a chair-a weapon strikes me as a good idea-and motion to our dog Rick to stick close behind me.
他默默地打手势让我把鲜花放在他的脚前。
He silently gestured that I simply place the flowers at His feet.
安迪被送进监狱时，另一个副手向特纳打手势，两个人小声说话，向他的方向看了一次。
As Andy was escorted into the jail, another deputy motioned for Turner, and the two whispered softly, looking once in his direction.
因为他不懂他们的语言，所以只好完全靠打手势做比划来和他们交流。
As he could not speak their language, he communicated with them entirely by gesture.
他的语速有点快，但相当清楚，只是他说话时爱打手势。
He speaks a little bit fast but very clearly. However, he likes to gesture from time to time while he's talking.
我开始会讲一些夸张的话，一些真正的恶棍的陈词滥调，然后我会打手势给你，你就跳出去然后说一些吓人的话。
Xy:I'll start by saying something over-the-top, some real cliche villain stuff, then I'll gesture to you, and you leap out and say something terrifying.
尽管我们的英语说的很慢，而且不停地打手势(美国人说“我要让你弄明白”的意思)，服务员还是花了好几分钟才明白我们到底要找什么。
Despite speaking slowly in English and gesticulating wildly (American for "I want you to understand me"), it still took the attendant several minutes to figure out what it was we were looking for.
萨穆埃尔·皮普斯（Samuel Pepys）曾在自己的日记中这样写道，“它在很多方面与人类都非常相似，我甚至觉得它听得懂英语，我想它应该能学会说话和打手势。”
Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary that the ape, " … is so much like a man in most things, I do believe it understands English and I am of the mind that it might be taught to speak and make signs."
萨穆埃尔·皮普斯（Samuel Pepys）曾在自己的日记中这样写道，“它在很多方面与人类都非常相似，我甚至觉得它听得懂英语，我想它应该能学会说话和打手势。”
Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary that the ape, " … is so much like a man in most things, I do believe it understands English and I am of the mind that it might be taught to speak and make signs."
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