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
acute internal hemorrhage
amphidromos
bacterial infection
ball and socket
bladder press
blanking pulse inverter
brace jack
bullets and numbering
Buthenal
cartomancy
cat o'mountain
ceekenesse
Chrey Bac
clinical thermometre
connotative definition
contoocook r.
cophins
cost sheet
description indicator
distributing ring
draw with replacement
dry cleaning gasoline
edible plant
entering variable
eroetatio nervosa
eye test
fine-motor
fish-tailing
fly speck
Foleyella
gog magog hills
ground-controlled space system
Hegesippus
hemangioblastic
hide and go seeks
Huttwil
Hygrophoropsis
incidently
incremental performance
insertion of muscle
journalistic ethics
latitude by meridian altitude
laxator tympani minor
loop answer
monopolian
motorcar set
multi-bucket dredger
non-electrified
nonmarketers
nosebridges
Oligella
owl's clover
pile extension
piperidinium
pulsus inaequalis
radiation dose-meter
remote cut off tube
repetition error
reproduction ratio
revospirone
Rodenkirchen
Saguntum
scale accuracy
scones
screw up
seat occupancy coefficient
secondary combustor
semigraphic control panel
sewage decomposition
sewins
shellery
Silene nana
slaughmess
sled dog
slim-down
sodium-void effect
solid wood dryer
somewhere or other
sonstadts solution
splenial
Spongesterol
square transom stern
step vein
succimal
supramolecular structure
swallowing my pride
SYNCOM(synchronous communication satellite)
TalkTalk
tall thistle
Tazidim
tediums
togglings
Tregs
tricholoma aurantiums
two-stage demineralization
uniform investment
uninucleated
unlicensed driver
uppp
vehicle maintenance and repair indices
volume effects
water pollution monitoring