Scots is one of Scotland's three remaining indigenous languages, along with Gaelic and English.

苏格兰语是苏格兰现存的三种土著语，还有盖尔语和英语。

Benny had 11 years of Irish Gaelic and five years of German at school.

Benny在学校里学了11年爱尔兰盖尔语和5年德语。

But Alan spoke to them in Gaelic.

但是艾伦用盖尔语对他们说话。

Though we've been here for hundreds of years, I'm a native Gaelic speaker.

虽然我们已经在这里生活了数百年，但我的母语是盖尔语。

They're Germans and Poles and wild Irishmen who talk Gaelic.

他们都是些德国人、波兰人和讲盖尔语的野蛮的爱尔兰人。

So where in Scotland do they speak Gaelic? Gaelic today is mostly spoken in the far west of Scotland especially on the islands. Islands such as Lewis and Harris and also Skye.

那么苏格兰哪里的人说盖尔语呢？今天，盖尔语主要在苏格兰西部的偏远地区使用，尤其是在岛屿上。像刘易斯岛、哈里斯岛和斯凯岛。

In Gaelic myth, Aed was one of the Children of Lir, a popular folktale that Irish children still learn today. The English gave themselves a translation of this fiery god, a name. Aed became Hugh.

在盖尔神话中，Aed是《李尔王的孩子们》的角色，爱尔兰的孩子们仍然在学习这个流传至今的民间故事。英国人自己给这个火热的神起了个名字。Aed变成了休。

They shouted back in Gaelic, and laughed.

他们用盖尔语对我声回话，。

This is a name from Gaelic origin, from Ireland, which actually translates from Gaelic into freedom.

这是个源自爱尔兰盖尔语的名字，实际上在盖尔语中翻译为“自由”。

The Irish Renaissance was largely a literary one, celebrating Irish history, folklore, and the Gaelic language.

爱尔兰文艺复兴的重点是文学复兴 它颂扬爱尔兰的历史、民间传说和盖尔语。

Or the Tyronean et, a precursor to the ampersand that you can still see on old signage written in Irish Gaelic.

还有 “蒂龙式‘et’符号”，它是 “&” 符号的前身，如今仍能在古老的爱尔兰盖尔语标识上看到。

It's probable that Norse only lasted here as a spoken language maybe a couple of 100 years and Gaelic reasserted itself.

北欧语作为种口语在这里可能只持续了几百年，然后盖尔语又重新占据了主导地位。

So it's nothing to do with breaking things into little pieces. -No, it's it means great in Gaelic. Smashing.

所以这跟把东西打碎没什么关系。-是的。Smashing 在盖尔语的意思是很棒。

Yeah, oh yes of course Scotland's national drink whisky this comes from the gaelic " Uisge Beath " which means the water of life.

对，苏格兰的国饮当然是威士忌了，它来自盖尔语“Uisge Beath”，意思是生命水。

Alan whistled three times, and we were met at the door by a tall, good-looking man of about fifty, who welcomed us in Gaelic.

艾伦吹了三声口哨，个约莫五十岁、长相很好的高个儿男人在门口迎接我们，他用盖尔语欢迎我们。

And even when the communities began speaking Scottish Gaelic the name material would have been adopted and adapted and survived in that way.

甚至当社区开始使用苏格兰盖尔语时，名称材料也会被采用和改编，并以这种方式流传下来。

And as far as the etymology concerned, there is a minority opinion that it derives from Scots Gaelic sgonn, meaning a shapeless mass or possibly a village in Scotland called Scone.

就词源而，有少数人认为它来源于苏格兰盖尔语 sgonn，意思是团不成形的东西，或者可能是苏格兰个叫斯康尼的村庄。

Despite their genetic ancestry, it is Gaelic that lives on and not Norse, but Islanders like Mairead have no ill feelings to those who may have conquered these isles, so many years ago.

尽管他们的祖先是盖尔人而不是北欧人，但像马芮德这样的岛民对多年前征服这些岛屿的人并无恶意。

Then he stood up and spoke fast to me in Gaelic, which I could not understand.

然后他站起来，用盖尔语对我飞快地说起来，那我听不懂。

OK. - Yes, so this is completely different and unfortunately, I only speak a few words of Gaelic.

好的。-是的，所以这完全不同，不幸的是，我只会说几句盖尔语。