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。
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anal cerari
andre weils
apreciate
asclepiadaceae mildweed family
athletic training
backward flow forming
base and bracket
Bernsdorf
blast chiller
censurer
Chomskyist
chromosome set
Claonaig
code interpreter
conterion
continuous hot strip mill
cotija
crank up something
credulities
cross section paper
current problem
cyclorotation
decreased overhead
deductions from gross payroll
double-list sorting
double-tube method
drift-way
eccentric orbit
elementary body
European black and white
family practice
farm plot for one's personal needs
fingerpaint
gasp at
guard-rooms
Hammurabi
hand held computer
hand on heart
handbrake
hernioenterotomy
IEDB
image plane scanner
infraglenoid tubercles
input vector
Jales
karnatakin
klontz
klutznick
laurestina
leg formula
line alveolar
main rod brass wedge bolt
momma's boy
mouth-tooth diseases
notre - dame de paris
number jumped
numericise
one over one address code
oryzopses
perforated distribution plate
permeability and acid resisting binder
phalangeal cell
photoelectric cathode photoelectric cell
plantar metatarsal arteries
Polish language
Psephellus
public-intoxication
pyramidiot
rajaan
reciprocal chiasmata
relative bending radius
Rhaponticum carthamoides
right lower abdomen
Sarmanovo
scattered ion intensity
Sec Def
Sir Harold George Nicolson
sissonne ouverte
sizing machinery
sodium carbonte
spuddle
stiff as a board
stochastic disturbance
storage(tank)
strategic opportunities
suspended-level viscometer
table-setting
talk down
testamenti factio passiva
the big five
The Holy Spirit
theory of controls
Trollope,Frances Milton
uncoupled bond
united states postal services
vaa
vetoproof
volder
wind-shadows
wonderwater