1. Its setting is emphatically antipodean and so, too, are its voices: eight characters drawn from Melbourne's
polyglot middle classes.
小说的背景强调正相反，而这正是它要表达的：刻画了来自墨尔本多元中产阶级的八个人物形象。
2. Born in Luxembourg, brought up in Germany and Austria, the
polyglot Ms von Habsburg is an avantgarde sculptor, specialising in large steel outdoor works.
出生于卢森堡，能熟练掌握德语和奥地利语等多语种的冯哈布斯堡女士，是一款前卫的雕人，在大型钢铁户外工作方面很有研究。
3. Should the president's English dry up, linguistic help is at hand in the shape of his
polyglot wife, Carla Bruni, a native Italian who speaks perfect French and English.
万一总统的英语一下子卡壳时，他那位会说多国语言的太太卡拉
