I can read the words in the phrasebook, but I can't say them.(我能看懂短語手冊中的這些詞，但不會說。)

You get a plate or take-out container and make your selection either blindly or informed, by asking nicely and trying to remember if there's a chapter on animal parts in your phrasebook.(你拿個盤子或外賣食品盒，即可以隨便拿幾串，也可精挑細選，并盡量記得用你的漢語手冊問清楚肉塊上是否有出廠商的印章。)

Why did the man need a phrasebook? Because he didn't speak English.(為什么這位男士需要一本常用手冊？他不會講英語。)

Is this Jim's phrasebook?(這是吉姆的常用語手冊嗎？)

A COMMENTER, Thomas Hopewell, asks "At what point along the trajectory from touristic phrasebook to Safiresque linguistic mastery do you feel comfortable claiming to 'speak' a given language?"(一個叫做ThomasHopewell的評論員問道：“在從常用旅游詞匯到像Safires這樣的語言大師這條曲線上，你認為在哪一點上合適聲稱自己已經可以‘說’一門語言了”。)

An affectionate handshake can be very long, and may even last throughout an entire conversation. (From the South Pacific phrasebook.)(一次充滿深情的握手可以持續很久，甚至整個對話。)

Optional use of Phrasebook, and save and reuse your translation.(可選的使用手冊，并保存和重用您的翻譯。)

Listen to the tape then answer this question. Why did the man need a phrasebook?(聽錄音，然后回答問題。為什么這位男士需要一本常用語手冊？)

The phrasebook has some very funny sentences.(這本短語手冊中有些很有趣的句子。)

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".(他不知所措地看著我，我只能不再秀我的土耳其語了。我去拿來詞語書，把與“自行車商店”相關的詞語指給他看。)