lingua franca

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Yet Ostler takes the view that by around 2050 no global lingua franca will be needed.
但奧斯特勒的觀點(diǎn)是：到2050年前后，世界將不再需要全球性的通用語言。
However, while BPMN 1.1 is serving an important role today, it is far from realizing its full potential as lingua franca for business analysts.
然而，盡管現(xiàn)今BPMN 1.1充當(dāng)了重要的角色，但它還遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)沒有實(shí)現(xiàn)它作為業(yè)務(wù)分析師通用語言的全部潛力。
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，英語可能會失去它作為世界通用語的地位，學(xué)習(xí)英語也將變得沒那么重要，但由此將能保護(hù)大量各種各樣的語種。

The development of English into the world's lingua franca suggests that spelling is not an insuperable barrier.
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a language used for communication between groups of people who speak different languages

A lingua franca is a language or way of communicating which is used between people who do not speak one another's native language.

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The 21st century is a global information technology boom era. English has become the international lingua franca of the global village, as such intercultural education should be of the utmost important.
21世紀(jì)是全球信息化蓬勃發(fā)展的時代,英語已成為當(dāng)今地球村國際的通用語,英語教學(xué)已經(jīng)成為跨文化教育最重要和最直接的手段。
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