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
actual unit weight
adventuresomely
Air Force special operations detachment
analogue storage module
anchylomera blossevillii
Arque
ask for bread and be given a stone
atomic-defect
aveo
back liner
blanking input
break off the habit of
camptospessartite
checkered plate (chequered plate)
Climactichnites
close-loop control mechanism
complete inelasticity
contour zone
crawl back into the woodwork
crest voltmeter
debt capitalisation
Dilleniaceae
dm (delta modulation)
dopatic
double gang roller
drop a dime
eight working-hour day
face-planted
fire blocking layer
firing on all four cylinders
fool-hasty
fuzzy relational database
go in when it rains
gross register tonnage
guide blade ring
hard to swallow
hardenability band
heating load
hemoperfusion
homogeneous cochain
hope to see you again
hump dumpling
hussas
industrial-strength
interim reference sunshine recorder
Kasese
life history
litella
liver-spotted
longed
make brownies
metamivam
methylene-hippuric acid
najee
nanandrous
nestons
non-canadian
nonsimultaneous interferometry
nus
on/off control system
one-nationism
operating account
ovary carcinoma
Partābgarh
phosphofructaldolase
plug-type
poetization
preschool pedagogy
price out of
ptyctodontid
put your face on
pyrography
Roethke, Theodore
rotational mode
Santorini's cartilages
selassies
Sharīk, Jazīrat
shida
signal(l)ing
six ways to Sunday
skimpies
smooth over
special characters
speculation market
subinguinal triangle
Sungu
surface crack detection
synthetic ammonia equipments
technical application
The blind leads the blind
thermies
theta-meson
threads of Golgi-Rezzonico
three-wedge bearing
transhipped
umbrella-group
unexistent
unreasonably
virt
when a man loves a woman
zoogloeae
zoomed out