事实：英语是牙买加国家的官方语言-English is Jamaica’s Official Language
时间：2018-12-19 作者：英语课 分类：Facts-事实
Pre-Listening Vocabulary
Western Hemisphere: the half of the globe that lies west of the prime meridian 1
colony: a region that is partly controlled by another nation
patois 2: any non-standard language
Creole: mixed European and African ancestry 3; often refers to people or food in the Caribbean
English is Jamaica’s Official Language
Jamaica is the third-largest English-speaking country in the Western Hemisphere. Jamaica uses British English because it was a British colony. Like Canadians, however, Jamaicans have adopted many American words, phrases and spellings in recent years. English is Jamaica’s official language and is taught in schools, but Jamaica also has its own informal language called Jamaican Patois (also spelled Patwa or Patwah). This is an English-based Creole language with West African influences. In Jamaica, Patois is mainly a spoken language. The structure is different from English in many ways. For example, there is no subject-verb agreement.
- All places on the same meridian have the same longitude.在同一子午线上的地方都有相同的经度。
- He is now at the meridian of his intellectual power.他现在正值智力全盛期。