lingua franca
lingua franca 英 ['liŋɡwə'fræŋkə] 美
phrase. 通用语；混合语；共通语
名词复数:lingua francas
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- phrase. 通用语；混合语；共通语
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1. Yet Ostler takes the view that by around 2050 no global lingua franca will be needed.
但奥斯特勒的观点是：到2050年前后，世界将不再需要全球性的通用语言。
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2. Chinese seems very unlikely to replace English as the global lingua franca anytime soon, while any global tidal wave of all-pervasive Chinese cinema and music appears far from imminent.
汉语似乎不大可能在短期内取代英语而成为全球通用语，而中国电影和音乐似乎也远未到形成世界潮流席卷全球的地步。
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3. On the flipside, English could lose its status as the global lingua franca and the need to learn it will become less relevant, thereby preserving a whole host of other languages.
另一方面，英语可能会失去它作为世界通用语的地位，学习英语也将变得没那么重要，但由此将能保护大量各种各样的语种。
- lingua franca (n.) 1620s, from Italian, literally "Frankish tongue." A stripped-down Italian peppered with Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic, and Turkish words, it began as a form of communication in the Levant. The name probably is from the Arabic custom, dating back to the Crusades, of calling all Europeans Franks (see Frank). Sometimes in 17c. English sources also known as Bastard Spanish.
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