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English Around the World (I)
全世界的英語（一）
There are More than 3 000 language are spoken in the world.
全世界共有3000多種語言。
Of all these languages, English is the most widely used.
在所有這些語言中，英語的使用最為廣泛。
Recent studies show that more than 500 million people speak English as their mother tongue.
近來的研究表明有5億多人將英語作為他們的母語。
From it's roots in England, the language was spread around the world by English traders and English governments in new lands.
自英語在英格蘭扎根以來，就被英國貿(mào)易商和英國政府傳播至世界各地的新地區(qū)。
One of these new lands became the United States of America.
其中的新地區(qū)之一變成了美利堅(jiān)合眾國。
The population of the United States is 309 milliom, making it the country with the largest number of native English speakers.
美國的人口有3.09億，是以英語為母語的人數(shù)最多的國家。
About 300 milliom people speak English as their second language.
大約有3億人將英語作為他們的第二語言。
There are even more people, like some in Europe as well as in China and Jaban, who study English as a foreign language.
還有更多人，比如歐洲、中國和日本的人將英語作為外語來學(xué)習(xí)。
English has become the base language for international business, for the world's airlines and even for the Internet.
英語已經(jīng)成為國際商業(yè)、國際航空甚至是網(wǎng)絡(luò)的基本語言。
Whatever language people speak, they need to know some English if they work in these fields.
無論人們的母語是什么，如果他們想在這些領(lǐng)域工作，就必須得知道一些英語。
It is clear that the English language is becoming more important.
很明顯，英語變得越來越重要。
