Collecting matchsticks was fun, until that fateful day one of them caught alight.
收集火柴是一种乐趣,除非一天其中一根火柴不幸燃烧起来。
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
就好像他本国语言的总词汇量和自己咿呀学语时他家庭所接纳的他的词汇量之比。