时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:背诵为王第一册


英语课

21 English in the World

Some people say that the English language no longer belongs to the English,and it belongs to the world. It is estimated that the number of people who useEnglish exceeds 750 million. Among these, about 350 million are nativespeakers, while the rest use it as an official language. If we add to thisnumber the people who have acquired the language to some extent, the total isclose to one billion.

English plays an increasingly important role in the world as a medium forconducting international business and diplomacy 1, as well as in science andmedicine, the Internet, air and sea communications, international sportsevents, radio and TV programs, pop songs and movies.

 


 


estimate 估计

exceed 超过

native 本族的,本国的

official 官方的

acquire 掌握

to some extent 达到某种程度

billion 十亿

increasingly 越来越多地

medium 工具,手段

conduct 实行,执行

international 国际的

diplomacy 外交

medicine 医药

communication 通信

event 事件



世界上的英语

有人说英语已不再属于英国人了,它属于全世界。据估计,使用英语的人超过七亿五千万,其中大约有三亿五千万是以英语为母语的人,而其余的人将英语作为官方语言使用。如果我们再加上已经掌握英语到一定程度的人,这个总数将接近十亿。



英语,作为进行国际业务和外交的工具,在世界上起着越来越重要的作用。它还在科学、医药、互联网、空中及海洋通信、国际体育赛事、电台电视节目、流行歌曲及电影中发挥着越来越重要的作用



1 diplomacy
n.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕
  • The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
  • This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
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baboo
bajra
ballistic vehicle
bimm
binary digit string
blue-blooded
bo-kaap
Brisbanites
bus-route
cackett
candle
channel effective transmission bandwidth
check error
chilled water system with primary-secondary pump
chlorophenoxypropionic acid
churches
clearing payment agreement
cocoa butter equivalent
competition commissioner
cranchiid
cyclogyl
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drawspring
due norths
earth-moving
ebolaviruses
enantiomorphy (enantiomorphism)
erotic love
exchange step
excommunications
exercise a claim
first-chop
forced traffic flow
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gang tool
general purpose grapple
Glenn Roeder
haemophilia
hg.
homogeneous resistance
hunting-and-fishings
intergrind
isurus glaucuss
landscapings
lawful interception
lead-acid battery
legiance
luminacin
major combination
Maswa
medium-thickness coal seam
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multiprocessor analysis
mythscapes
napthalyne
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octacyanomolybdates
over suppressing
pentene
plagal cadence, plagal close
position limiting
power-laws
prepreference
prize up
probability of stability
put ... forward
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Quaker gun
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segmented address space
sense antenna
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silkatine thread
sinograph
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static screen
step-grandfather
sturgeons
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teaboxes
telanthera
thank
third degree
transmition
tricarballylic acid
underwater habital
useful cross-section
voluntarii heredes
Vorotynets
watch a movie
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