Mr Ostler is surely right about the nationalist limits to the spread of English as a mother-tongue.
Ostler先生确信民族主义者限制英语作为母语的传播是做得对的。
It sounds fair: Germans in Poland get schooling in the mother-tongue, street signs in both languages and guaranteed representation in parliament.
这听起来很公平，因为德国人在波兰能够得到以母语为语言的学校教育，以双语写成的街头标识，在议会中有有保证的代表权。
While learning a second language, students should also enhance their awareness of the importance of mastering their mother tongue.
在学习第二语言的同时，学生也应该更加重视掌握母语的重要性。
Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
他希望发现一个没有听到母语的孩子会说什么语言，他让护士们保持沉默。
In different countries around the globe, English is acquired as the mother tongue; in others it is used as a second language.
在世界各地的不同国家，英语作为母语被习得；在其他地方，它被用作第二语言。
His mother tongue was German and at school he learned French and English, but he felt his English was poor.
他的母语是德语，在学校学了法语和英语，但他觉得自己的英语很差。
And most black children came from poor, ill-educated families where English, the main language of instruction, was not their mother tongue.
而且黑人孩子大都来自文化程度很低的贫困家庭，他们的母语不是教学中所使用的英语。
“Even though Chinese is my mother tongue, I would rather see it in English, ” she commented during the interval.
即便中文是我的母语，我还是希望听到英语版本的。
Maybe this is already her mother tongue.
也许这先前就是她的母语。
British readers have access to an unprecedented range of news and ideas from Europe in their mother tongue.
英国读者单靠母语就可以接触到欧洲各类新闻和思想，范围之广，史无前例。
Media is a form of language, and we always favor our mother tongue.
媒体是一种语言形式，而我们永远偏爱自己的母语。
How do we learn out mother tongue?
人们是如何学会母语的？
'mother tongue' is not a coincidental phrase - people have long imagined that the close bond between mother and child meant that children acquire language from their mothers, not their fathers.
“母语”不是与字面一致的一个词——很多人长期假设：母子之间的亲密纽带，可能意味着孩子从母亲而不是父亲那里习得语言。
To many of its patrons it is also a commercial hub with its 13 financial institutions and numerous professional services where business can be carried out in the mother tongue.
对许多它的老主顾来说，它仍是一个商业中心，有13家非银行金融机构和许许多多的可以用母语交流的专业服务机构。
People like to read in their mother tongue.
人们喜欢阅读他们的母语。
We always look for translators to translate into their mother tongue and write this in our adverts.
我们通常找那些翻译自己母语的译者，然后把我们提及到的写下来。
English has become a truly international language with more speakers of English as a second language than as a first or mother tongue.
英语已经成为真正的国际语言，因为把英语作为第二语言的人数已经超过以英语为第一语言或母语的人数。
Their analysis, published in journal Current Biology, revealed clear differences in the shape of the newborns’ cry melodies, based on their mother tongue.
在《现代生物学》期刊上发表的这项研究揭示了新生儿啼哭声调的明显差异，这一差异正基于他们的母语。
In practice, however, English, the mother tongue of only 8% of South Africans, has taken over as the lingua franca.
然而实际上，仅为8%南非人母语的英语现在已经俨然成为了混合方言。
英语是她的母语。
Incisive eloquence—in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue—was common fare among Georgians and Victorians lucky enough to have had at least a dozen years of schooling.
乔治王时代或维多利亚时代的人，只要足够幸运受过十几年教育，不管是在拉丁语希腊语还是他们自己的母语方面，通常都有着敏锐的口才。
You can only read comfortably in a foreign language, without having to translate into your mother tongue, if the texts you are reading are at least one level below your present classroom level.
如果你要自在地阅读外语，且无须翻译成自己的母语，那么你所读的文章的水平应该比你目前的课程水平至少低一级。
Recently, it has been demonstrated in a series of ingenious experiments that we even perceive colors through the lens of our mother tongue.
最近，一系列不确切的试验表明，我们甚至可以通过我们母语透镜察觉各种颜色。
We did not even have parents whose mother tongue was English!
我们甚至都没有说英语为母语的父母！
Spoken and written in the media and on stuffy occasions, this kind of Arabic is no one's mother tongue.
这些用于媒体和公开场合的阿拉伯语根本不是任何人的母语。
Spoken and written in the media and on stuffy occasions, this kind of Arabic is no one's mother tongue.
这些用于媒体和公开场合的阿拉伯语根本不是任何人的母语。
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