swahili

swahili

美 [swɑ?hili] 　英 [swɑ??hi?li]

• n.斯瓦希里語；(東非的)斯瓦希里人
• 網絡斯瓦西里語；斯瓦西里族；瓦希利語

詞形變化

復數：Swahilis  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 斯瓦希里語 2. (東非的)斯瓦希里人

英英解釋

n.	1. a major language of eastern Africa 2. someone from eastern Africa who speaks Swahili as their first language

例句

I was a bit worried, to say the least. The man next to me said in Swahili, "What's the problem? "

說得輕一點我有點擔心，我身邊的男人用斯瓦西里語說，你有什么不好嗎？

I nodded in mock agreement, but he might as well have been speaking Swahili .

我點頭假裝贊同，但是他仍在講著他的鳥語。

I'm heading to Tanzania in a few weeks for the TED global conference, and I'd like to improve my Swahili before I go.

幾周后我要遠赴坦桑尼亞參加TED全球大會，走之前我想先學點兒斯瓦西里語。

Mivinjeni primary has no windows and the Indian Ocean breeze gently blows through the Swahili grammar class.

明杰里小學都沒有窗戶，來自印度洋的微風可以吹進斯瓦希里語語法課堂。

And so to see Swahili to have a presence online, to see Swahili wikipedia hit 1000 articles is just a wonderful thing.

所以，看到史瓦希里語在互聯網上占有一席之地，而史瓦希里語的維基百科能夠收錄到1000篇文章，真是無比美妙。

She has a TV set now, a gift from a local airline executive, but she always used to follow the news on the radio in Swahili or Luo.

她現在有了臺電視機，是當地一家航空公司的主管送給她的。不過她還是一如既往的只聽斯瓦西里人（Swahili）或者盧奧人（Luo）電臺里的新聞。

Your own Foreign Minister, my colleague Li is of course an expert on Africa, having visited most of its countries - and speaking Swahili.

中國外交部長，我的同事李肇星，是非洲事物專家，他已經訪問非洲大多數國家，能講斯瓦里希語。

Whether you speak Chinese, English or Swahili, a laugh or smile has virtually the same meaning all over the world, researchers said.

研究者說：不管你說漢語，英語還是斯瓦希里語，全世界人們大笑和微笑的含義都是一樣的。

She was a thin Swahili woman with a serious face, a widow.

她是個身材瘦削、表情莊重的斯瓦西里（Swahili）寡婦。

So I was surprised when our first group of women farmers burst into a rapid-fire discussion in Swahili without hesitation.

所以當第一群農民婦女們不假思索就用斯瓦西里語展開熱烈討論時我很驚訝。

A small bronze statue of a lion has been found in the Swahili town of Shanga. Nothing similar has ever been found in East Africa.

一個小青銅獅子塑像已經在尚加的索馬里城發現了，還沒有類似的東西在東非被發現。

While it was hemmed in on land, it traveled to the Swahili in Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, Madagascar, Indonesia, China.

美中不足的是僅限于陸地，它們被傳到了非洲的斯瓦希里、波斯灣、紅海、馬達加斯加、印尼、中國。

in East Africa, this tree is called Masiwaji in the local Swahili is toothbrush meaning.

在東非，這種樹枝被稱為馬斯瓦基，在當地斯瓦希里語中是牙刷的意思。

Language: English and Swahili are the official language. Kikuyu, Somali and Luo are also widely spoken.

語言：英語和斯瓦希里語為官方語言。吉庫尤語、索馬里語和盧奧語也通用。

Sultans, sailors, slaves, and spice traders have all passed through this mystical Indian Ocean archipelago on East Africa's Swahili Coast.

蘇丹人，水手，奴隸，和香料商商人都曾經過這片位于東非斯瓦希里海岸神秘的群島。

on East Africa's Swahili Coast has witnessed human history: sultans, sailors, slaves, and spice traders have all passed through here once.

這個位于東非斯瓦希里海岸的神秘群島見證了人類歷史。君主蘇丹，水手，奴隸以及香料商人都曾從這里經過。

Paul Warambo explains how the term "sexual intercourse" is commonly translated from English into Ki'Swahili.

PaulWarambo解釋了如何將“性交”一詞從英文翻譯成斯瓦希里語。

Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions.

拉穆古鎮是東非最古老、存最完整的斯瓦希里人聚居地，并仍然保持著它的傳統作用。

So you may be saying to yourself, I have to sign up right now for Swahili and calculus and accordion lessons before my brain withers away!

你或許因此對自己說，趁著我的大腦還沒退化，趕緊報名學習史瓦西里文和微積分，還有手風琴班吧！

But Nahla was found to have a few meanings ranging from gift in Swahili to "drink of water" in Arabic.

但經考證，Nahla一詞在斯瓦希里語中意為“禮物”，在阿拉伯語中意為“飲水”。

A more apt elephantine expression is found in Swahili: when two elephants fight it is the grass that gets hurt.

一個更貼切的，對巨大的表達在班圖語里是：當兩頭大象打架的時候，受傷的是草皮。

Language: The national language is Sango, Arabic and Swahili though the official language is French.

語言：通用桑戈語，阿拉伯語，斯瓦希里語，官方語言為法語。

The website is named for a Swahili word for "testimony. "

該網站以斯瓦希里語中的“宣言”一詞而命名。

And whether they're learning Swahili or Swedish, they go about it in much the same way.

不管他們學的是斯瓦希里語還是瑞典語，這個過程都是以差不多同樣的方式完成。

Mr Gration was born in Congo to missionary parents, speaks Swahili and knows the region well.

格拉辛先生出生于剛果，父母親同為傳教士，精通斯瓦希里語，并非常了解這個地區。

The very name of the Tanzanian port means "lay down your heart" in Swahili.

作為坦桑尼亞港口城市的名字，在斯瓦西里語中的意思是“放下你的心”。

Many of the tusks are numbered with Swahili writing [see illustration on page 76], suggesting an East African shipping source.

這些象牙其中有許多都以非洲的斯瓦希里文（Swahili）編上號碼（見第111頁照片），顯示應該來自東非。

And when you line up your mental calisthenics (your Swahili and swing lessons), make sure you can stay loose and have fun.

如果你準備參加智力型的軟運動（斯里瓦爾語和搖擺樂課程），請確定你可以保持放松的狀態并享受這個過程。

According to reports, India's "I" web by India bribery two "turtle" pull marsh and swahili returned home to establish.

據報道，印度的“我行賄了”網站由印度兩位“海龜”拉馬什和斯瓦提回國后創辦。

He is a learned professor and can speak any languages from Japanese to Swahili.

教授很博學，能講許多語言，有日語等還有。

Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East Africa.

東非的主要交際語是斯瓦希里語。

Exim also offers an innovative savings account for budding women entrepreneurs called the Tumaini Account (Swahili for "hope" ).

進出口銀行也面向嶄露頭角的女企業主提供創新型儲蓄賬戶服務。該賬戶名為Tumaini（斯瓦西里語，意為“希望”）賬戶。

that sounds really interesting. Can you speak Swahili?

這聽起來很有趣。你會講四斯瓦希里語嗎？。

She taught me how to say "hello" in Swahili.

她有教我用斯瓦希里語說“你好”哦。

To investigate the effect of testing on mediators, Pyc and Rawson had 118 English-speaking participants learn 48 Swahili words.

為了調查考試對“介質”產生的效果，佩克和羅森讓118名講英語人士學習48個斯瓦希里語的單詞。

The kits are called Huru, Swahili for "Freedom. "

這種裝備名叫Huru，在斯瓦希里語里意思是“自由”。

Many colleges recommend that a student of African studies also learn an African language such as Hausa or Swahili as part of their program.

許多學院建議，非洲研究院的學生也應當學習一門非洲語言，例如豪薩語或斯瓦希里，作為其課程的一部分。

Oh, you don't speak Swahili.

哦，你不懂斯瓦希里語。

In our research, we typically use Swahili-English word pairs, such as 'wingu -- cloud. '

經過我們研究，我們通常使用斯瓦希里語-英語單詞對照，就像wingu-cloud。

They include a 46-year-old woman shot dead near the town of Jilib after a Swahili-language bible was found in her shack;

死者中包括一名46歲的婦女，她在吉利卜鎮附近被槍殺，罪名是在她的窩棚里發現了一本班圖語圣經。