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Easy and Difficult-(易学的和难学的语言)
A：People always say that Chinese and English are very hard to learn. Sometimes I wish I were learning French or Japanese. Maybe they'd be easier.
人们常说汉语和英语是很难学的。有的时候我想要是我学法语或日语就好了。 也许这两种语言容易些。
B：Maybe, but maybe not too. It all depends on what language you already speak.
可能，不过也可能不太容易。这要看你原来是说什么语言的。
A：Why should that be? What diffrence does it make?
为什么呢？这有什么关系？
B：Well, languages are more or less equally difficult.Most of the things one language says must be said by every language in some way.
哦，语言大体上都是同样地难学。一种语言中所说的绝大部分东西，在别的语言中差不多都有。
A：You mean I could learn Chinese easily?
你的意思是说我学汉语会很容易？
B：No, because your native language is Spanish. But Italian might be easy. It has a lot of words that are similar to words in Spanish. Even the sound systems are more similar than that of Chinese is to Spanish. How difficult a language is to learn depends mostly on how much it resembles your own language.
不，因为你的母语是西班牙语。所以意大利语可能容易些。它有很多词同西班牙语相似。连它的语音体系也比汉语更接近西班牙语。一种语言是否难学，主要看它在多大程度上同自己的语言相近。
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4. 或多或少,有点：many a 许多 | more or less 或多或少,有点 | next door 隔壁的,在隔壁
5. more or less：mol; 增减
1. I hope my Chinese can become more or less native by then.
2. more or less是什么意思
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3. Four incumbent directors will more or less carry on with their current work.
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6. The lack of an authoritative explanation more or less disappointed the participants of the CEE and the public.
7. Campagnac said CMA CGM's 30 weekly services to China will " stay more or less the same ".
8. more or less的解释
8. Almost everyone can name color tones or shades that more or less agree with their state of mind at a given time.
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adv
1. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
e.g. lasted approximately an hour
in just about a minute
he's about 30 years old
I've had about all I can stand
we meet about once a month
some forty people came
weighs around a hundred pounds
roughly $3,000
holds 3 gallons, more or less
20 or so people were at the party
Synonym: approximately about close to just about some roughly around or so
2. to a small degree or extent
e.g. his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory
the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other