Yiddish

1. I couldn't read or understand a word of Yiddish, so I asked him to translate.: 我完全不懂意第绪语，所以请他翻译。

2. He spoke Polish, Yiddish and Russian.: 他讲波兰语、依地语和俄语。

3. No. Bissel. It's a Yiddish word. It means little.: 不，是“细尘”啦。是意第绪语中少量的意思。

4. There are several Yiddish words to describe social misfits.: 有好几个依地语词描述社交不适应。

5. On the second day, we briefly meet a passenger who speaks Yiddish.: 次日，我们遇上了一个说依地语的人。

6. In the future we may even become the world center for Yiddish, who knows?: 今后，我们甚至可能会成为全球意底绪人的中心，谁知道呢？

7. Second Avenue in this area was called "the Yiddish Rialto" in early 20th century.: 位于此区的第二大道在20世纪初的时候被叫做是“意第绪的亚里托”。

8. I will not write down his real name even in this bothersome Yiddish - letter cipher.: 即使是用难以辨认的意弟绪语字母的密码，我也不愿意在这里写下他的真实姓名。

9. The Conclusion summarizes Singer's achievement as both a Yiddish and American-Jewish writer.: 结论部分总结了辛格作为意第绪语作家和美国犹太作家的成就。

10. "There's a New York Jewish culture that has a saying 'Think Yiddish, act British'," says Brooks.: “纽约的犹太人文化中流传着这样一句谚语‘像犹太人一样去思考，像英国人一样去表现’，”布鲁克斯说。

11. There were jazz orchestras, ballet performances, drama groups, theater companies and even a Yiddish theater.: 这里还有爵士乐队、芭蕾舞表演、戏剧团体、舞台剧剧团，甚至还有一个意第绪剧团。

12. Because of historical immigration, some Yiddish words may be more common in American English than British English.: 由于历史迁移，相对于英式英语，一些依地语词汇可能在美式英语中更为常见。

13. The lively Elena Sarashevskaya edits the Yiddish section of the main local newspaper, the Birobidzhan Shtern, though she isn't Jewish.: 活泼的埃琳娜·萨拉舍夫斯卡娅是当地大报——《比罗比詹斯特恩》的意底绪语版面编辑，虽然她也并非犹太人。

14. Last September, two schools representing a quarter of the city's students introduced compulsory Yiddish classes for children aged 6 to 10.: 去年九月，还有两所学校代表这座城市四分之一的学生，推出了为6到10岁儿童准备的意底绪语强化班。

15. "What if you found out that one of them was a writer for the Yiddish newspaper?" she asked, in what might have been the worst sales pitch ever.: 她启发我说：“说不定你会发现他们当中有谁在意第绪语（犹太人语言——译者注）报纸上发过文章呢？” ——这大概是世界上最糟糕的推销词了。

16. As languages go, English is a notoriously promiscuous one, borrowing caricatures from Italian, chutzpah from Yiddish and faux pas from French.: 从语言角度来说，英语在“杂交”方面可以说是恶名昭著，它将意大利语的滑稽荒诞、意第绪语的肆无忌惮和法语的不拘小节全都兼容并蓄。

17. Growing up in a Jewish household where my parents and grandparents spoke Yiddish, we even had a word (shadchen) for those who were matchmakers!: 我生长在一个犹太家庭，父母和祖父母都说意第绪语，在意第绪语里，甚至有一个专门的词汇(shadchen)来称呼这种牵线搭桥的人。

18. This particular gun didn’t have a barrel or fire bullets, instead the word is an alteration of the word ganef or gonif, a Yiddish word meaning “thief.”: 这类特别的枪并没有枪管或是子弹。相反，这个词是ganef或gonif的替代用法——一个意为“盗贼”（thief）的意第绪语（Yiddish）单词。

19. This particular gun didn’t have a barrel or fire bullets, instead the word is an alteration of the word ganef or gonif, a Yiddish word meaning “thief.”: 这类特别的枪并没有枪管或是子弹。相反，这个词是ganef或gonif的替代用法——一个意为“盗贼”（thief）的意第绪语（Yiddish）单词。

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