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
all souls festival and dance (europe)
amygdalifolius
archaize
bamboo forest
berthollide
Big E
brain neurochemistry
bush redpepper
car unloading operation
carmovirus
cloudiness in oil
computer-aided flow visualization
cr fuel injection system
cylindrical transverse projection
dalling
deedly
defray
denary scale
dicap storage
diminuation
dry heat setting
east dilution of precision
faurie
ferrateen
filler port
film-writers
flesh-andblood
foot-pumps
game master
gentlemanpensioner
glycosaminoglycan of pectinid
grievance
ground-to-air
groundhopper
guignardia linderae
half-free
hand brake pull rod jaw
Hart Hills
heath-berry
hollow-backed
Hood, Mount
individual treatment
ionized gas laser
isoflavanone
Koepe winder
levitated superconducting ring
light-manufacturing
limacid
lumen
luminescence spectroscopy
main compression coil
Mandritsara
maturity of largest labour productivity
Montierchaume
multiadjustable
multiskyrmion
multistep decision
myoelectric potential
Namsfjorden
nibblingly
nonauthorial
noseride
nutwoods
obelise
ossana
overpunched numeric
panning shot
parede
phase gregaria
phosphorescently
polyester staple fiber
potential transmittance
power range high neutron flux trip
preconceptual
premilitary
Prussianisms
receptaculum Pecqueti
red-wines
rhumbs
ring canal
rotorscoop
scanned IR interferometry
secondary malnutrition
secondary slip band
self-evidence
sit-upons
slash grain
slim wirilda acacia
subdistrict headquarter
subgalea
Sunnistan
superconductor
t.hudson
tens jumper distance piece
Tingyi
top load
trigonometric subroutine
variable-density soundtrack
web failure
wernadskyite (antlerite)
without encumbrance