英语翻译English is generally acknowledged to be the world's most
英语翻译
English is generally acknowledged to be the world's most important language .
first ,the number of native speaker of english is more than 300 million(Spanish,next in size to english,is spoken by about 240 mollion people,Russian by 210 million ,Protuguese by 125 million ,GERMAN BY 110 million ,French by 85 million ,Italian by 65 million).
second the spread of english over most of the world as an international language is a unique phenomenon in the world's population -- live in countrie where english has some official status or is one of native language ,if not the dominant native language .
third ,english leads as the primary medium for 20 century science and technology
finally ,english is the language of the united states ,whose gross domestic product in 1980 was more than double that of its nearest competitor ,japan .(Adapted from A Comprehensive Grammar of the english language by Randolph Quirk et al ,1985)