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
Adiaspirosis
advanced ignitor
ante date
anti-crimes
Antibromics
associated radius of convergence
autozero mode
average years of a generation
bailee clause
belatedness
bewitchful
Burningbush
capripoxviruses
cavolinia longirostris
charterer's liability
Citrus vulgaris
concepting percentage
concussion shearing
convex weakly compact set
corniche road
costopneumopexy
coupling
cresyls
deep dentin caries
defensive missile
dental materials
dielectric discontinuities stripline
digital-analog function table
disk database
dorsal ligament (hock joint) (or oblique ligament)
drum reactor
Durana metal
Dām Dim
echinuliform
elusive memory
external trade shipments policy
ficcin
floating claim
foundry ingot
genetic materials
genus pileas
gleek it
glomus versiforme
glyoximes
havilder
hen-day basis
Huffman-Mealy method
instanced in
isogesis
kantha
kotors
Kurbatoba, Mys
line mounted valve
lineae semilunaris
Lizhmozero, Ozero
magnetic modulation
mailou
maximum tractive force
MHRI
Michelia maudiae
motion angle for return travel
nanoselective
Nosema apis
nozzle tip
nuke
oasis
oiled clothing
otus sunia japonicus
paracystitis
phlegmona
Phyllanthoideae
plumulariae
point of transition
Pomoan
pre-irradiation grafting
preclusory
preputial pouch
prosperity in animal husbandry
prunella vichyanum factitium
quasiclassical
replacement name
sailcloth
self sealing coupling
shade deviation
smoke limit power
specific temperature rise
stamped hole
Sulz
tangential zero from below
tapping pin
television synchronizing signal generator
tide-gage station
unsclerotized
unsectarian
vegetable growing
viewing audiences
Warrau
water soluble potash
weathered ice
wilmar
windfloat