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。
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。
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。
He had not used his mother tongue for so long that every word in the book seemed alien.
他好多年没有使用母语了书上的每个字看起来都是那么陌生。
My mother tongue is (European) Portuguese, but my contact with other languages started early.
我的母语是（欧洲）葡萄牙语（译注：与美洲、非洲、亚洲等地区的葡萄牙语相对），但是我很早就开始接触其他语言。
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。
Though Chinese is our mother tongue, we still need to master it well, or we will be kicked out.
虽然汉语是我们的母语，我们仍然需要掌握它，不然我们就会被淘汰。
When you want to create an English sentence, do not translate the words from your Mother tongue.
当你想构建一个英语句子的时候，不要尝试着从母语翻译句子。
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。
Sign language is the mother tongue of deaf people, and the "first language" they acquire naturally.
手语是聋哑人的母语，是他们自幼在最自然的状态下习得的第一语言。
If we couldn't learn our mother tongue, how can we make others believe us can do other things well.
如果我们不学好我们的母语，我们怎么能让别人相信我们可以做好其他的事情呢。
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。
“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。
Though Cantonese was Sun's mother tongue, he still persuaded his countrymen in the Congress to give up Cantonese.
虽然粤语是孙的母语，他仍然在国会说服他的同乡放弃粤语。
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。
This is generally true, as the vast majority of peoples there speak Spanish or Portuguese as their mother tongue.
一般来说这是事实，因为那些地区绝大多数的民族都使用西班牙语或葡萄牙语作为母语。
Austrians of German mother tongue, by far the country "s largest ethnic group, form between 85% and 89% of its population."
以德语作为母语的奥地利人是该国家的最大的种族，占总人口的85%到89%。
When writing in our mother tongue, we spend almost no time in considering language, so our attention is mainly on contents.
在运用母语写作时，基本上不用花很多时间和精力去考虑语言，因而重点是放在内容上。
When writing in our mother tongue, we spend almost no time in considering language, so our attention is mainly on contents.
在运用母语写作时，我们基本上不用花很多时间和精力去考虑语言，因而我们的重点是放在内容上。
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。
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。
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。
The most serious one was to assume that our mother tongue constrains our minds and prevents us from being able to think certain thoughts.
而其中最为严重的错误是假定我们的母语束缚了我们的思考，阻碍我们形成对某些想法进行思考的能力。
The most serious one was to assume that our mother tongue constrains our minds and prevents us from being able to think certain thoughts.
而其中最为严重的错误是假定我们的母语束缚了我们的思考，阻碍我们形成对某些想法进行思考的能力。
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