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These days, French has lost status because the United Nations has five official languages, not just one: English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese.
近些年，法語(yǔ)逐漸失去自己的地位，因?yàn)槁?lián)合國(guó)有五種官方語(yǔ)言，而非僅僅一種，即:英語(yǔ)，法語(yǔ)，西班牙語(yǔ)，俄語(yǔ)和漢語(yǔ)。
The individual most responsible for bringing English and French together (and one of the greatest writer in English literature) was a customs official who lived in the late fourteenth century named Geoffrey Chaucer,
對(duì)促進(jìn)英語(yǔ)和法語(yǔ)相融合最有貢獻(xiàn)的人叫做杰弗雷·喬叟，他生活在14世紀(jì)晚期，當(dāng)時(shí)任海關(guān)官員，也是英國(guó)文學(xué)界最偉大的作家之一。
whose Canterbury Tales is one of the most extraordinary works in English, practically created, or at least made acceptable, a new language, which was a combination of the more elegant French and the cruder but more powerful Germanic elements.
他所著的《坎特伯雷故事集》是英國(guó)最杰出的文學(xué)作品之一，該作品創(chuàng)造了，或者說(shuō)使世人接受了一種新的語(yǔ)言，這種語(yǔ)言由更加優(yōu)雅的法語(yǔ)和雖然粗糙但是強(qiáng)勁有力的日耳曼語(yǔ)的音節(jié)組成。
Since Chaucer's time the two languages have been woven closer and closer together, forming the single language that we now know as English.
從喬叟時(shí)代開始，這兩種語(yǔ)言越來(lái)越緊密結(jié)合，最后就形成了今天的英語(yǔ)。
However, even today, vestiges of the differences survive, for words of French or Latin origin still tend to occur more frequently in formal written English than in spoken English.
然而，即使在今天，細(xì)小的差異仍然存在，比如來(lái)自法語(yǔ)和拉丁語(yǔ)詞源的詞匯在英語(yǔ)正式書面語(yǔ)中會(huì)比口語(yǔ)中更常使用。
This naturally means that, for Spanish speakers, it is often easier to understand written English than spoken English.
這意味著，對(duì)于講西班牙語(yǔ)的人來(lái)說(shuō)，英語(yǔ)書面語(yǔ)會(huì)比口語(yǔ)更加容易理解。
You can find evidence of this in this paragraph. Go through it and underline the words which are similar to words in Spanish.
你能在下面這段話中找到證據(jù)?？焖匍喿x這段話并在與西班牙語(yǔ)詞匯相似的詞下面劃線。
It is virtually certain that these will be words of Latin (or Greek) or French derivation, and probably they were brought to England by William the Conqueror and his men long ago.
幾乎可以斷定，這些詞匯派生于是拉丁(或希臘語(yǔ))，它們可能是很久之前由征服者威廉和他的手下帶到英格蘭的。
