来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第13集 第13集》

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  you've suddenly got all these Lithuanian intellectuals
  你会突然发现所有这些立陶宛知识分子
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  and grand dukes and priests and various people saying,
  大公 神父以及各色人群说
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  "Wait a minute.
  "等等
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  We are Lithuanians and happily, the Lithuanian peasantry
  我们这些立陶宛人太幸运了
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  has saved our language."
  因为立陶宛农民拯救了我们的语言"
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  The last Lithuanian duke who spoke Lithuanian died before
  最后一个说本国语言的立陶宛公爵死于
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  Columbus discovered America,
  哥伦布发现美洲大陆以前
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  Tim Snyder informed me.
  这是蒂姆·斯奈德告诉我的
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  Some may say, "These Lithuanian peasants,
  有些人也许会说 "这些立陶宛农民
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  we won't treat them anymore as the scum of the earth.
  我们不会把他们视为一无是处的人
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  They have preserved our language for us."
  他们为我们保存了自己的语言"
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  Suddenly, you have poets writing in Lithuanian.
  突然间就出现了用立陶宛语写诗的诗人