English was a native language, in a certain way, because English

英语可算是他的母语某种意义上来说
was spoken in his household all the time,

因为英语就是他们家的日常用语
and he was trained by an English governess as a young child.

而且他小时候曾受教于一位英语女家庭教师
So, it's a language that goes deep in his upbringing.

所以这种语言在深深扎根于他的教育中
It's not really analogous-- well, I'm not going to get in to

这并不十分像我并不是要进入这个话题
that--it's not analogous to, say, Conrad, who is Polish and

这并不像比如康拉德身为波兰人
learned English.

去学习英语
And you can see the marks in Conrad's fiction of his having

而且你们可以在康拉德的小说中看见
learned English and then, it comes across as a sort of clotted

他学习英语的痕迹那也逐渐变为康拉德
style in Conrad.

个人风格的一种浓缩
Some of the difficulty of Conrad's style is the difficulty of writing

康拉德的风格之难处在于用
in this acquired language.

后天习得的语言来写作