Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.

哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言，而在其中是有力量的，这是一首在1915年作的诗。

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In Alsace almost everybody, as you will see later, spoke German dialect. But it didn't mean, if you asked somebody, "Are you French?"

在阿尔萨斯基本上每个人,你以后就知道,说一种德语方言,但也不是说,你要问别人,"你是法国人吗"

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The Hebrew language itself is essentially Canaanite, a Canaanite dialect.

希伯来语本身就是迦南的，是迦南方言。

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Since in historical Greek times, let us say the fifth century B.C., the people who inhabited the Peloponnesus were mainly speakers of the Greek dialect called Doric.

从有历史记载的希腊时期开始,比如说公元前十五世纪,居住于伯罗奔尼撒的人们,是希腊多利安方言的主要使用者

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Now, Alsatians were French, even though many of them spoke German dialect.

阿尔萨斯人是法国人,虽然他们很多人说德国方言

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The northern most settlements on that coast spoke Greek with an Aeolian dialect; the Aeolian dialect is the one that you see on the mainland in places like Boeotia for instance Thebes and so on.

在北部,大多沿海移民,都说伊奥利亚方言,伊奥利亚方言,在内陆,例如皮奥夏和底比斯,等地较为普及

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and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

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