Even the name, Mami Wata, which is pidgin English for 'Mother Water'.

甚至这个名字，Mami Wata，它是“水母亲”的洋泾浜英语。

You don't have to speak pidgin English to me, Jim. - This is Sir Humphrey Appleby, my Permanent UnderSecretary.

你可不用跟我讲洋泾浜英语。- 吉姆这位是我的常务次长，汉弗莱·阿博柏先生。

A pidgin is a reduced language that results from extended contact between people with no language in common.

pidgin 是一种简化的语言，是由于没有共同语言的人之间的长期接触而产生的。

They're more of a, more darker complexion. They speak in a more pidgin, we call it pidgin English.

他们的肤色要更深一些。他们的语言更混杂，我们称之为“洋泾帮英语”。

Once established in the Americas, these pidgins developed into stable creoles, forms of simplified English combined with many words from a variety of African languages.

一旦在美洲站稳脚跟，这些洋泾浜语便发展成为稳定的克里奥尔语，即结合了多种非洲语言的许多单词的简化英语形式。

One African mermaid is called, Mami Wata, in pidgin English - amixture of English and local languages which enables people who do not share a common language to communicate.

其中一种非洲美人鱼在洋泾浜英语中被称为玛米瓦塔。洋泾浜英语是英语和当地语言的混合，它使不使用一种共同的语言的人们可以互相交流。

She tried to talk to him, partly by signs, partly in pidgin French, which, for some reason, she thought would be more comprehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English.

她试着同他讲了几句，一半用手势，一半用外国人说的蹩脚法语，不知为什么，她认为这种话他更容易懂，另外，她倒也会说五六句英国话。

The Chinaman seemed to think we were lost, and chattered in pidgin English concerning the abundance of " litty stick" (chaparral), while the Indian silently scanned the billowy ridges and gulches for openings.

中国人似乎认为我们迷路了，用洋泾浜英语喋喋不休地谈论“小棍子”（chaparral）的丰富性，而印度人则静静地扫视着波涛汹涌的山脊和峡谷寻找空隙。

Perhaps it began as a pidgin, a hastily developed form of communication between groups that don't share a common tongue, or maybe it was the result of English words being dropped into African grammar systems.

也许它起源于洋泾浜语， 一种在没有共同语言的群体之间仓促发展起来的交流方式，或者可能是英语单词被放入非洲语法系统的结果。

The name 'Mami Wata' comes from Nigerian pidgin English - a language which has developed from a mixture of two languages and is used as a way of communicating by people who do not speak each other's languages.

“Mami Wata”这个名字来自于尼日利亚的洋泾浜英语 —— 发展自两种语言的混合并且语言互不相同的人用作交流方式的一种语言。

The name 'Mami Wata' comes from Nigerian pidgin English – a language which has developed from a mixture of two languages and is used as a way of communicating by people who do not speak each other's languages.

" 玛米瓦塔" 这个名字来自尼日利亚洋泾浜英语——由两种语言混合而成的一种语言，是不讲对方语言的人和对方交流所用的一种交流方式。