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Lesson63 The Dying Languages p. 435

时间:2007-12-29 15:36:03来源: 作者:

Today, more people than ever before are speaking to each other through satellite television, cellular
telephones and computers. This means that people from different parts of the world need to be able to
communicate in the same language. That language happens to be English.
    Because of this, experts have predicted that more than half of the world's 6,000 languages may die out
in the next century. Already almost all Californian Native American languages are in danger of extinction.
They are being swallowed up by English and other language. It is a pity, but that is one of the prices of
modernization.

Don't use dirty/bad language 脏话  (language = speech)
I am dying to see the movie with Madonna.
than ever before = than ever = than before
handy 方便的
Bruce wrote a letter to Peter in English.
sector = area
It happens that I have 20 dollars.  演变: I happen to have 20 dollars.
die out = become extinction 绝迹
Native American 土著人   native American 美国出生的        a native zhuang
capitalize 将...大写

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