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。
学英语单词
a thing of naught
advancement of ocular muscles
all-optical demultiplexing
allogamies
Angoisse
appropriable
arc striking time
be in treaty with
blended seasonings
buffer engaging process
cincinno raceme
cochromatography
common vegetable
conestion
contagious equine abortion
cordite
Coregoninae
data set control block
debtor and creditor agreement
decision on the merits
degest
diagrammatic profile
dielectric welding
Divuma
doppler beat frequency
dragon gum
dual key system
dust protector
elengenesse
epispasm
erythrodontium julaceum (schwagr.)par.
far-infrared ray
far-removeds
flare chute fabric
flexural mode
flumed
Fulutong
genus procyons
Glu-C
half measure
heat pipe
hemitaxonus formosanus
high temperature sludge
hill flock
horizontal sintering
hose spanner
howarth
ICAAAA
Insan-ri
Joule-Clausius velocity
Khurai
Labadie Bk.
lail
level plumb line
Lodge-Muirhead coherer
Man, Dép.de
mastography
mios devices
mizzentop
Moita
multisystem communication
musculus papillaris anterior ventriculi sinistri
nitrin
non-linear regression analysis
noncoplanar force
Notowitz
Nussbach
Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance
palm-sized
Pattanapuram
personal exposure meter
PIPSE
plastic suspension
polyalkoxysilane
pupa obtecta
pursued
quadripoint
Ramea Is.
real-valued stochastic process
reverse proportionality
s-ey
scrambled television
seed separating
serjeanties
solograph
special purpose simulation language
suborder Mysticeti
Synsepalum
system of non linear equations
take freedoms with sb
take the rap
territorial court
thermal noise generator
titty bar
toggles
unconcessions
underlying cost
wave-front curvature
wear-resisting property
wigfield
wishing for
yeltsin-era