1·English is the city's second language, closely followed by Russian and Turkish.
英语是这座城市的第二语言，紧接着是俄语和土耳其语。
2·He gave me a nonplussed look, so I gave up on the shallow pretence that I could speak any Turkish and, instead, went to get my phrasebook to show him the relevant words for "bicycle shop".
他不知所措地看着我，我只能不再秀我的土耳其语了。我去拿来词语书，把与“自行车商店”相关的词语指给他看。
3·Its closest relatives are Turkish and Turkmen.
与它最接近的是土耳其语和土库曼语。
4·Too gentle and cautious to probe indelicately for his stories, Mr Pope is an excellent linguist (speaking fluent Persian, Turkish and Arabic), a good listener and a cultured observer.
波普在发掘新闻报道时十分儒雅而谨慎，他是一个卓越的语言学家（能说流利的波斯语、土耳其语和阿拉伯语），他也是一个好的聆听者和有教养的观察者。
5·At his high school, Robert College in Istanbul, he put Rabindranath Tagore into Turkish at 14; some years later, as a press attache in London, he studied Bengali to read Tagore in the original.
高中时代，他就读于伊斯坦布尔的罗伯特学院，年仅十四岁，就将泰戈尔的作品翻译成土耳其语；几年后，他在伦敦担任新闻专员时，为了能够读懂泰戈尔的原著，学习了孟加拉语。