'I want you to learn Hindustani instead of German.

“我想让你学度斯坦语，而不是德语。

Well, Hindi and Urdu are both dialects of Hindustani.

- ，地语和乌尔都语都是度斯坦语的方言。

She learned characters of the Hindu alphabet and  translated her journal entries into Hindustani.

她学习了度字母表的字符，并将她的日记条目翻译成度斯坦语。

He could have told any number of stories if he had been able to speak anything but Hindustani.

如果他能说度斯坦语以外的任东西，他本可以讲很多故事。

She turned to the Lascar, feeling glad that she remembered still some of the Hindustani she had learned when she lived with her father.

她转向拉斯卡，很高兴她还记得她和父亲住在一起时学过的一些度斯坦语。

It seemed so important to him that I could not refuse, and when his sisters returned, they were surprised to find me learning Hindustani with St John.

这对他似乎至关重要，使我难以拒绝。回来时，看到我正和圣约翰学习度斯坦语，感到非常惊讶。

Diana said I looked ill, and needed a holiday at the seaside, but St John thought I ought to concentrate on more serious work, and gave me even more Hindustani exercises to do.

戴安娜说我看上去不舒服，需要到海边去疗养，然而圣约翰却说我应该集中精力多做些正经的事，还给我更多的度斯坦语练习来做。

" The most interesting, if they spoke at all, didn't speak it very well and understood less. I learnt Hindustani. And when I went south I picked up enough Tamil to get along pretty well" .

“最有趣的是， 即使他们会说话， 也不会说得很好而且理解得更少。我学习了度斯坦语。当我去南方的时候， 我学会了足够多的泰米尔语， 可以很好地相处” 。

Somehow she was sorry for him and did not want him to lie awake, so she leaned against the bed and began to stroke and pat his hand and sing a very low little chanting song in Hindustani.

不知怎的，她为他感到难过，不想让他醒着躺着，所以她靠在床上，开始抚摸他的手，用度斯坦语唱一首非常低沉的吟唱小歌。