1·The train was on time, but there was no sign of my Finnish friend.
火车准时到达了，但还没有见到我芬兰朋友的踪影。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Fad Louhivuod, the school's principal, decided to try something extreme by Finnish standards.
学校校长 Fad Louhivuod 决定用芬兰的标准来尝试一些极端的事情。
3·In 1963, the Finnish Parliament made the bold decision to choose public education as the best means of driving the economy forward and out of recession.
在1963年，芬兰议会做出了一个大胆的决定：选择公共教育作为推动经济向前发展和走出经济衰退的最佳手段。
4·The result is that a Finnish child has a good chance of getting the same quality education no matter whether he or she lives in a rural village or a university town.
结果是，一个芬兰的孩子有很好的机会获得同样的素质教育，无论他或她生活在农村还是大学城。
5·Is Thailand's Finnish experiment working?
泰国的芬兰式实验获得成功了吗？
6·There is also a small group of Finnish descent.
也有少部分芬兰人的后裔。
7·The Finnish author who wrote an entire book in text message.
用短信写了一整本书的芬兰作家。
8·"But you're not elephants," reply the Finnish border guards in puzzlement.
芬兰边防士兵惊道：“可你们不是大象呀！”
9·However, the Finnish language bears some similarities to the Sami language.
然而芬兰语和萨米语有一些相似处。
10·That might seem harsh coming from a former Finnish professional goalkeeper.
这话出自一位前芬兰职业足球守门员之口，听上去总让人有些哭笑不得。
1·That does not mean that Finnish is not important to the Finns, and Maori is not important to the Maoris. It is just that these languages are not so important to the rest of us.
这并不意味着芬兰语对芬兰人不重要，毛利语对毛利人不重要，只是这些语言对我们其他人而言不是那么重要。
2·Ovi -the Finnish word for "door" -could even offer TV programs at some point.
这个词语在芬兰语中是“门”的意思，能够见诸于某些电视节目当中。
3·In Finnish, exceptionally, each letter makes a single logical sound and there are no irregular words.
特别的是，芬兰语的每个单词都有符合逻辑的发音，并且没有不规则词汇。
4·Georgiou notes that students are able to learn to read faster in languages such as Greek and Finnish, because there is one-to-one correspondence between a letter and its sounds.
乔治奥提到，在希腊语和芬兰语中，儿童能够更快的学会阅读，因为字母和读音之间存在一一对应的关系。
5·Yes, I speak only a little bit of Finnish.
是的，我只能说一点点芬兰语。
1·You know, a former head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks was Finnish, and when he returned to Finland, he was appointed director of one of the largest theaters — a completely different field.
大家都知道，芝加哥黑鹰队的前任主教练是芬兰人，当他回到芬兰，他被任命为一个芬兰几所最大剧院之一的导演- - -是一个完全不同的领域。
2·Finnish tradition prefers majority to minority coalitions and ignores left-right divisions to forge a consensus with two or three of the big parties.
传统芬兰人偏爱多数的联合甚于少数联合，并且不相信由两三个大党分工合作而伪造出来的统一民意。
3·It's a great starting point with its 25% of foreigners, which means you can easily find Swedish, Finnish or English-speaking people if you need them.
这里25%是外国人，意味着你可以很容易的找到瑞典人，芬兰人或者说英语的人—如果你愿意的话。
4·Using 18th and 19th century Finnish records –a time when almost everyone got married and divorce was strictly forbidden.
研究数据来自19世纪和20世纪期间芬兰人的记录，在这个年代几乎所有人都结婚，离婚是被严格禁止的。
5·Mr Segerstrale is Finnish; the other founder, Sebastien de Halleux, is Belgian.
舍格斯特尔（Segeratrale）先生本身是芬兰人，而游鱼的另一名创始人塞巴斯蒂安.阿勒代（Sebastien de Halleux）则来自比利时。