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So far, English is also the preferred language of air traffic control in many countries and is used widely in sea travel communication.
到目前為止，英語還是許多國家空中交通管制的首選語言，并廣泛應用于海運通信。
Another factor has something to do with information exchange around the world.
另一個因素與世界各地的信息交流有關。
As we all know, a great deal of academic discourse around the world takes place in English.
我們都知道，很多學術話語都是英語。
It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example,
例如，英語通常是會議的通用語，
and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, trial psychology and geology have English as a kind of default language.
而且天文學、實驗心理學和地質學等領域的許多期刊文章都把英語作為默認語言。
The last factor I cite here concerns popular culture.
我在這里談到的最后一個因素與流行文化有關。
In the western world, at least English is a dominating language in popular culture.
在西方世界，英語至少是流行文化中的主導語言。
Pop music in English can be heard on many radios, thus many people who are not English speakers can sing words from their favorite English medium songs.
收音機里可以聽到英語流行音樂，因此許多不說英語的人也可以唱幾句他們最喜歡的英語歌曲。
And many people who are regular cinema-goers or TV viewers can frequently hear English in subtitled films coming out of the USA.
許多經常看電影和電視的人經常能在美國的字幕電影中聽到英語。
Now, to sum up, in today's lecture, we have reviewed some of the reasons or factors that lie behind the popular use of English as the No. 1 world language.
現在，總結一下今天的課程，我們探究了英語作為第一世界語言得到廣泛應用的一些原因或因素。
Before we finish, I would like to leave a few questions for you to think about. Is the status of English as the No. 1 world language assured in the future?
在結束之前，我想留下幾個問題供大家思考。在未來英語一定會是世界第一語言嗎？
Will it split into varieties that become less mutually intelligible? Or will some other language or languages take the place of English as world language in future?
它會分化成更互不相通的變種嗎？或者其他某種語言或幾種語言會取代英語成為未來的世界語言嗎？
These questions are not easy to answer, I know. But they are definitely worth pondering over after the lecture.
我知道這些問題不容易回答。但這些問題絕對值得在講座結束后認真思考。
Ok, this brings to the end of today's lecture. Thank you for your attention.
好了，今天的課到此結束。謝謝大家。
