Students are calling for a boycott of the English department.

学生们在呼吁抵制英语系。

I graduated from the English department of Fu-Jen Catholic University.

我是天主教辅仁大学英语系毕业的。

Is it from old English sweostor or from Old Norse systir?

它是源自古英语 Sweostor，还是源自古斯堪的纳维亚语系？

In many countries, including Britain and America, schools' and universities' foreign-language departments have been closing.

在包括英国和国在内的许多国家，学校和大学的外语系一直在关停。

However unless you live in an English speaking country, or use English every day at work.

不过 除非你住在英语系国家 或是每天工作都会用到英文。

Sometimes gestures used in different languages have contrary meanings.

有些动作出现在不同的语系里便有完全相反的意义。

In today's video I'm going to walk you through your stay at a hotel in an English-speaking country.

在今天的视频里，我要带大家走一下你在英语系国家住宿的整个流程。

In another split, words that have SK sound in Swedish developed an SH sound in English.

另一个语系中，瑞典语中有着SK发音的词，在英语中发展出了SH的发音。

The Celtic linguistic group has two main branches:   Continental and Insular.

凯尔特语族有两个主要分支：大陆语系和岛屿语系。

The project was organized by our school's English department, who encouraged all students to participate.

该项目由我校英语系组织，鼓励所有学生参与。

Travelers to English-speaking countries have to adjust to differences between British and American English.

到英语系国家旅行的人必须适应英式英语和式英语之间的差异。

A 1903 medical phrasebook for Luganda, a Bantu language, offers the unexplained but authoritative: " Keep everything you vomit."

1903年，一本班图语系卢甘达语的医学术语手册中写到了一句原因不明但看起来十分笃定的话：“把你的呕吐物都留下。”

Sophomore English, one row over, two seats down.

英语系大二学生，在我前一排隔着两个座位的位置。

In Vietnam and China, the gesture for " come here" is quite similar to that of waving " good-bye" in English.

在越南和中国，“过来”的手势与英语系人士表示“再见”的手势很类似。

In the coming October, I will go to your university to further my studies in the English department.

即将到来的十月份， 我将去贵校英语系深造。

The Muslims' holy scripture, the Koran, and the Old Testament were both written in the Semitic family of languages.

穆斯林的圣经《古兰经》和《旧约》都是用闪米特语系写成的。

Learning these differences is fun, and, when you travel to different English-speaking countries, it's very useful.

学习这些差异很有趣，而且当你到不同的英语系国家旅行时也会非常有用。

The English department's Kate Benson will read from her recently published poetry collection The Ways of a Woman.

英语系的凯特·本森 (Kate Benson) 将朗读她最近出版的诗集《女人之道》(The Ways of a Woman)。

A tree model for a language family starts with one language, which we call a mother language, for example, Proto-Indo-European.

一个语系的树模型从一种语言开始，我们称之为母语，例如原始印欧语。

Spanish speakers tolerate a much closer speaking distance, a distance of some 30 centimeters, which is about half that which English speakers prefer.

西班牙语系人士与人所保持的距离比较近，大约为30厘米，这样的距离是英语系人士所能接受距离的二分之一。