swahili

noun

1. 斯瓦希里语（通行于东非，尤作第二语言）
   a language widely used in E Africa, especially between people who speak different first languages

1. Author and Swahili expert Sarah Mirza will serve as the language and cultural adviser.
   作家同时也是斯瓦西里（Swahili）语言专家的莎拉米尔扎（SarahMirza）将担任语言和文化顾问。
2. And so to see Swahili to have a presence online, to see Swahili wikipedia hit1000 articles is just a wonderful thing.
   所以，看到史瓦希里语在互联网上占有一席之地，而史瓦希里语的维基百科能够收录到1000篇文章，真是无比美妙。
3. And I'd like to speak swahili.
   我想说斯瓦希人语。
4. It happened/ chanced that she spoke fluent Swahili.
   偏巧她很会说斯瓦希里语。
5. He grew up speaking English; a later adoption of Sheng, a slang based on Swahili, energises him.
   成长于英语环境之中，后来又学习了sheng俚语，正是这种以斯瓦希里语为基础的俚语赋予了他无限活力。
6. Al-Qaeda has long tried to incite a jihad against "Christian" Ethiopia and to foster terrorist cells on the Swahili coast, particularly in Kenya.
   阿凯达组织长久以来都在试图煽动一场圣战专门针对基督教的埃塞俄比亚军队，特别是鼓动起驻于肯尼亚斯瓦希里海岸的恐怖主义作战单位。
7. The people who created Kwanzaa used the word for "first fruit" in Swahili, one of the largest languages in Africa.
   建此节日的人从非洲使用最广的语言之一斯瓦希里语中选用了表示初收果实的词宽扎。
8. She both speaks and writes Swahili.
   她不但能讲而且能写斯瓦希里语。
9. He speaks fluent Swahili as well as English and has been to all but three of the countries on the continent a much better record than I can boast.
   他能说流利的斯瓦希里语和英语，除三个国家之外，他到过非洲大陆的所有国家这是一个我无法与之相比的记录。
10. She speaks Swahili with great fluency.
    她说的斯瓦希里语非常流利。
11. 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!
    也许这是你在对自己说，现在马上我就要去报名参加斯瓦希利语（Swahili）、积分学和手风琴课，得赶在脑子迟钝之前！
12. Language: The official languages are French and Kirundi, Swahili is also widely used.
    语言：法语和基隆迪语为官方语言。斯瓦西利语也广泛使用。
13. The Wakashan language of the Kwakiutl. She speaks Swahili with great fluency.
    夸扣特尔语夸克特尔人讲的瓦卡希语她说的斯瓦希里语非常流利。
14. He is a learned professor and can speak any languages from Japanese to Swahili.
    教授很博学，能讲许多语言，有日语等还有。
15. Since they spoke only swahili, we used signs and gestures to make ourselves understood.
    既然他们只讲斯瓦希里语，我们就用动作和手势来表达意思。
16. Your own foreign minister, my colleague Li is of course an expert on africa, having visited most of its countries-and speaking swahili.
    中国外交部长，我的同事李肇星，是非洲事物专家，他已经访问非洲大多数国家，能讲斯瓦里希语。
17. Language: English and Swahili are the official language. Kikuyu, Somali and Luo are also widely spoken.
    语言：英语和斯瓦希里语为官方语言。吉库尤语、索马里语和卢奥语也通用。
18. When elephants fight, goes a Swahili saying, it's the grass that suffers.
    正如一句斯瓦西里语语格言说的那样，当大家大象打架时，遭殃的却是小草。
19. Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East africa.
    东非的主要交际语是斯瓦希里语。
20. Whether you speak Chinese, English or Swahili, a laugh or smile has virtually the same meaning all over the world, researchers said.
    研究者说：不管你说汉语，英语还是斯瓦希里语，全世界人们大笑和微笑的含义都是一样的。
21. Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions.
    拉穆古镇是东非最古老、存最完整的斯瓦希里人聚居地，并仍然保持着它的传统作用。
22. Exim also offers an innovative savings account for budding women entrepreneurs called the Tumaini Account ( Swahili for "hope").
    进出口银行也面向崭露头角的女企业主提供创新型储蓄账户服务。该账户名为Tumaini（斯瓦西里语，意为“希望”）账户。
23. ( Swahili) a long garment ( usually white) with long sleeves; worn by men in E Africa.
    （班图人的）一种长袖衣服（通常为白色）；东非男子穿着。
24. Until 2010 Mr Joseph ran Safaricom, the Kenyan company that launched M-PESA, so-called because PESA means money in Swahili.
    2010年之前，约瑟夫一直负责肯尼亚移动运营商safaricom的运营，正是该公司推出了m-pesa（pesa在斯瓦西里语里是钱的意思）。

noun

1. the most widely spoken Bantu languages