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
'Ajlūn
abyssomicin
Anisogamet
antitumour
apoplectic habit
asatic microphone
avenaceus
baby's-tears
baldassare
Binomial Option Pricing Model
birdly
bisdimethylthiocarbamyl sulfide
black rhino
blanket rate
Bonderized
bright moon
Buleleng
bulk charge transfer device
caratuberside
carpinus chuniana hu
caspersen
chart magazine
coefficient of bearing capacity
corona failure
cowdie
crane pontoon
cum explosion
cycloheptannulated
decorticating
Deighton
dental embryology
digital bar code wand
digitalization of flow picture
dimpliest
diversity ratio
dunging
ecs
equivalent-binary-digit factors
etaerio
field tag
Finlay, Finley
flavonols
genus calliophiss
get flustered
Great Linford
habaneroes
hard palare
high modulus inclusion
hookie
hot swell (can)
Hādī, Jab.al
Islamite
joys and sorrows
kachmar
ldl-cholesterol
legned key
linear simultaneous equations
liquefaction of sand
magnetic detector
mengi
metric linear space
muscles of abdomen
naphthanilide
nautical mark
needle bushes
neem cake
neopavrine
neutron flux converter
Nicasil
nonuniformity of the earth's rotation
parahilgardite (hilgardite-3tc)
parastatic
period planning
picnic ham
pimpling
potentilla nivea l.
preemptive pricing
primed empty carrtridge cases
pseudoimage
pulsewidth
recycled-paper
Restricted license bank
roof bolting method
runway ecnterline lights system
scrollsaws
simulation graphic library
skillicorns
soft-minded
spurious trichinosis
subject to review
subperitoneo-abdominal
syndrome of deficiency of kidney qi
tangled up
Tihāmat 'Asīr
transport network
trend estimation
triceps brachii m.
tridodecylaminen
Veronicastrum axillare
Winslow's ligaments
WTS
zabaleta