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给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识 1. It is the only major language without an academy to guide it. 英语是唯一没有学术机构加以规正的大语种。 L’Académie fran?aise, based in Paris, is in charge of overseeing the French language. For Spanish there is the Real Academia Espa?ola. German has the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung. There is no equivalent to L’Académie for English. Of the 10 most-widely spoken languages in the world, only English has no academy guiding it. 法兰西文学院位于巴黎，负责审查法语。对于西班牙语，有西班牙皇家学院，德语有标准德语德语正字法协会。而英语则没有相应的文学院。世界十大使用最为广泛的口语中，唯有英语没有学术研究院引领。 2. More than 1 billion people are learning English as you read this. 你读这篇文章的时候，有超过10亿的人正在学英语。 According to the British Council, around 1 billion people around the world were learning English in 2000. This figure is now likely to be significantly higher. 据英国文化委员会的调查数据显示，在2000年，全球有10亿左右的人正在学习英语。如今这个数字很可能有了更为显著的提高。 3. 96 of the 100 most common English words are Germanic. 英语中100个最常用词中96个来自日耳曼语。 Of the hundred most frequently used words in English, 96 have Germanic roots. Together, those 100 words make up more than 50% of the Oxford English Corpus, which currently contains over 2 billion words found in writing around the world. 100个使用频率最高的英语词汇中，96个有日耳曼语词根。总的来说，牛津英语语料库词汇有超过一半由这100个词汇组成——目前涵盖世界各地书面语中超过20亿的词汇。 Surprised? The most frequently used words are the meat and bones of the language, the essentials that make communication work, including I, you, go, eat, and so on. 吃惊吗？使用频率最高的词汇是一门语言的骨架，这些要素让人们成功沟通，比如“我”、“你”、“去”、“吃”等等。 4. But most words that have entered the language since 1066 have Latin origins. 不过自1066年之后的大部分英语词汇都有拉丁词根。 The Renaissance, which started in Italy and reached England via France, was a massive source of new vocabulary. New ideas, or old ideas rediscovered, started flooding out of the southern cities but there were no words to describe them in English. So the language adopted or adapted the Latin words. During the Renaissance, the English?lexicon?roughly doubled in size. 起源于意大利，席卷法国再蔓延至英国的文艺复习带来了海量新词。新的点子也好，旧的想法也罢，被人们重新发现，不断从南部的意大利城市中奔涌而出，