I have little interest in bird watching, but it sure beats working.
虽然我对赏鸟并没多大兴趣,但我宁愿赏鸟也不愿去工作。
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。