英语翻译there has never been a world language to match English .

英语翻译
there has never been a world language to match English .Latin in its time ,Italian in the 16th and 17th centuries and French in the 18th and 19th centuries did not close to the penetration and pervasiveness of English today .On the growth ,it seems likely that by the year 2000 there will be more non-native English speakers than native .