仁爱英语九年级U3T1 section C译文.docVIP

UNIT 3 English Around the World 第3单元 遍及世界的英语 Topic 1 English is widely used throughout the world 话题1 英语在全世界被广泛使用。 Section C There are more than 3 000 languages are spoken in the world. 世界上有3000多种语言被使用。 Of all these languages, English is the most widely used. 在这些语言中，英语被最广泛使用。 Recent surveys show that more than 500 million people speak English as their mother tongue. 最新研究表明5亿多人把英语作为母语。 From its roots in England, the language was spread around the world 源于英国的语言传播到了全世界。 by English traders and English governments in new lands. 被英国商人和英国新开发的殖民地政府 One of these new lands became the United States of America. 其 中一块新殖民地成为了美利坚合众国。 The population of the United States is 309 million, 美国有三亿九百万人口， making it the country with the largest number of native English speakers. 是以英语为母语 人数最多的国家。 About 300 million people speak English as their second language. 大约 3 亿人把英语当作他们的第二语言。 There are even more people, like some in Europe as well as in China and Japan, 在中国和日本，还有欧洲，甚至有 更多的人 who study English as a foreign language. 把英语作为外语来学习。 English has become the base language for international business, for the world’s airlines and even for the Internet. 英语已经成为了国际贸易、世界航空、甚至是因特网的基本语言。 Whatever language people speak, 不管人们说什么语言， they need to know some English if they work in these fields. 如果在这 些领域工作，他们都需要知道一些英语。 It is clear that the English language is becoming more important. 显而易见，英语 已经变得更加重要。