Teddy Roosevelt worried that America would become a" polyglot boarding- house" .

·罗斯福担心美国将成为一个“通晓多种语言的寄宿家庭”。

Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in Nature in 2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, " engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process" .

他2012年在《自然》杂志中写到，研究者应提高他们的专业水准，而杂志要更加严格，“聘用通晓统计的校对员和能核实数据的编辑”。

I think I had to grow up to realize that you don't need to be smarter than other people, that you don't need to know things that people don't know.

我想我是长大之后才领悟到，你并不需要比别人聪明，你不需要去通晓别人不知道的事情。

The language divide is still evident today, as many parts of eastern Ukraine have a good knowledge of, or speak Russian as their mother tongue.

直到今天，语言鸿沟仍然十分明显，正如东乌克兰的许多地方通晓俄语，或者讲俄语 ，并将其作为他们的母语。

The simple answer is to thoroughly learn unique cultural norms for physical contact.

简单的答案就是彻底通晓身体接触的独特文化规范。

There are several such polyglot events organized all around the world, and so I decided to go there and ask polyglots about the methods that they use.

在世界各地有几个像这样的多语种活动，所以我决定去那里问问通晓多种语言的人所用的学习方法。

They can separate facts from opinion and don't pretend to have all the answers.

他们既能够区分事实与想法，又不会装作通晓一切。

The film shows that before we are born, we are omniscient, we already know everything.

电影中说，在出生之前，我们全知全能，通晓一切。

The vital employee might be someone who knows the technology equivalent of Sanskrit.

最重要的员工可能是通晓如梵语古老的技术的人。

They know the law like you know the market.

他们精通法律 如同你通晓股市一。

He stood silent before her, clutching the glove as though it were an understanding hand and, in the stillness that followed her words, her indignation fell away and pity, tinged with contempt, took its place.

他默默地站在她面前，手里仍然抓着那只手套，仿佛抓着一只通晓人情的手似的，而思嘉在说了一大篇之后也沉默了，她的怒气已经平息，取代它的是一种略带轻视的怜悯。

He was just a little boy but somehow he knew everything, just like the smartest, wisest grownup – all the math and history and science.

尽管他只是一个小孩子，但是从某种程度上来看，他什么都明白，都知道。他就像一个绝顶聪明睿智的大人一样——通晓数学，熟知历史，懂得科学。

But it strikes me that you are already well versed in civilization's scale problems that your generation has been tasked with solving.

但我深知，你们已经通晓这些文明进步的问题，并肩负着解决它们的重任。

Knowing a language isn’t simply about communicating words, it’s about entering another world, a world which remains partially closed if you can’t express yourself.

通晓一门语言并不是简单的沟通字句，而是要进入另一个世界，在这个世界里，如果你无法表达自己，那么它对你来说仍是半封闭的。

And taking the perfect photograph meant you had to master some chemistry, from capturing light, to developing an image that you can see.

拍出一张完美的照片意味着你必须通晓一些化学知识，从捕捉光线到生成肉眼可见的图片。

Dee's desire to “know what was knowable in the world”, spurred by that star, leads him to occultism and, ultimately, to his downfall.

伊的愿望是“通晓世界上一切可知的事物”，正是那颗星星促使并引领他走向神秘学的道路不过最终也导致他的垮台。

But we do know that they were both masters of the art of discourse.

不过可以肯定的是，他们两个都是通晓谈话艺术的专家。

When body language savvy world leaders get together, they know there is one sure fire moment to demonstrate dominance.

当通晓身体语言的世界领导人聚在一起时，他们知道有一个明确的比拼时刻来显示地位。

Douglas Hofstadter, a polyglot and polymath writer, has argued that something profound will vanish when people talk through machines.

精通多种语言且通晓多门学科的作家侯世达认为，当人们通过机器进行交谈时，一些深刻的东西会消失。

So how do polyglots like Lydia learn multiple languages successfully, and what can we learn from their methods?

那么像莉亚这样的通晓多种语言的人是如何成功学习多种语言的呢？我们又能从他们的学习方法中学到什么呢？