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
abeyant
acetyladonitoxin
agenda sheet in audit
animal heat
arteria metatarseas
at-tack
Auchnagatt
azabicyclics
backs-to-the-wall
bank reconciliation statement
bilithic filter
Biphasil
boldo
bordered surface
bounded function
brehmers
bubble chambers
called back
Cantonese
caprock mt.
car deck ramp
Carlsbad salt
celtium
Cissus repens
Citrus L.
color burst
commercial route
common source connection
constant stroke pump
Corchoropsis psilocarpa
cyclical disease development
deep investigation
Doggett's Coat and Badge Race
doted
double line railway
drill core
finned tube heat exchanger
fish chowder
fluoresceine paper
fundacao
fungus ulitis
gawlers
gearmotor
go gangbuster
graphic character set global identifier
hablo
high speed disintegrator
hydraulic depth
hyperphoneme
implantodontist
intrapetitoneal
Jetec
Khadyzhensk
koizumi
l-lysine monohydrochloride
languescent
lipasic
listerellosis
long coupon
motor-mouth
multiple scattering effect
net net weight
non-contraband
oblique seismic reflection configuration
offshore breakwater
pan troglodytes schweinfurthiis
plasmomovement
poly(ether-ketone)
pragmatic perspective
preisner
Raffaelesque
ratting-crook
read through module
rehires
remarriage rate
Rossby regime
saltpans
scavenging air chamber
scoring gauge
Selim I
semisimple Lie group
sexter
shippo
Sicilian Defence
sliding tappet
snoze
sowda
space intersection
special monitoring
spike nozzle
state-specified standard
stationary information source
sylar
tensity
top surface camber
turn plow
unthinks
UV-reactivation(UVR)
vasomotor wave
water privilege
wealthy men
zardaverine