查询词典 monoglot

How could you consider leaving your kids to wallow in monoglot ignorance

你怎么能让自己的孩子沦落到只会一种语言的无知人群中？

When this was done, the monoglot babies had difficulty overcoming their learnt response, even when the researchers gave them further clues that a switch had taken place.

当这种条件反射形成之后，只熟悉一种语言的婴儿即使是给他们更进一步的线索也很使他们难克服已学会的反应。

Will this mean a more peaceful, communicative world or an arid linguistic desert, subject to the tyranny of the monoglot yoke?

这是意味着一个更加和平与沟通的世界呢还是屈从于某一单一语言统治的语言荒漠呢？

Then the words, and the location of the puppet, were changed. When this was done, the monoglot babies had difficulty overcoming their learnt response, even when the researchers gave them further clues that a switch had taken place.

在试验中，两位研究者选择了40个7个月大的婴儿作为观察对象，这些孩子中有一半在仅懂一种语言的环境下长大，另一半则在双语环境下成长。

Dozens will call a cheery "Hello" to you as you walk past but any attempt at conversation in English swiftly dissolves into laughing incomprehension and even those who might be expected to have some English are often still monoglot.

当你在路上走过时，许多人会欢快地以"Hello"向你打招呼，但你要想以英语与他们交谈时，他们很快会笑笑表示语言不通，即便是那些应该掌握一点英语的人通常也只会说中文。

The message was clear: how could you considerleavingyour kids to wallow in monoglot ignorance, while all overthe worldthe next generation of leaders is already getting stuckintoseveral foreign tongues?

前几天，我惊讶地看到，一个看上去很真诚的年轻女士，正敦促父母们让他们的孩子尽早开始学习外语。

You will feel impotent shame as monoglot Lithuanian waitresses ply surrounding tables with booze, while your parched guests debate sharing the water from the floral centrepiece.

当只会一种语言的立陶宛女招待端着酒类饮料围着桌子转来转去，而你的客人口干舌燥，争相去取桌上鲜花摆设里的水时，你会有一种无力的羞耻感。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失