北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 19 Communication 1

[00:03.24]Unit 19 Communication Culture Corner
[00:08.30]English Around the World
[00:10.65]Nowadays,there are around 400 million speakers
[00:14.44]of English as a first language in countries
[00:17.23]such as Australia,Britain,Canada,
[00:19.48]Ireland,Jamaica,New Zealand,
[00:21.67]South Africa and the United States.
[00:24.37]In addition,there are many more millions
[00:26.58]of people who speak English
[00:28.35]as a second language,
[00:29.75]that is,when English is used in government,
[00:32.30]business and education.
[00:34.75]Many countries where English is used
[00:36.74]as a second language are ex-British
[00:39.42]colonies¹ such as India,Kenya,Nigeria,
[00:42.16]Pakistan,Singapore,and Srilanks.
[00:45.30]Furthermore,English is the most widely
[00:47.51]studied foreign language in the world.
[00:50.26]Sixteen hundred years ago,
[00:52.00]the ancestor of "Engish"
[00:53.77]was a language spoken by a few barbaric tribes²
[00:56.80]who had not even arrived in Britain.
[00:59.09]How did it eventually become a world language?
[01:04.12]British English
[01:05.82]It was in Shakespear's lifetime
[01:07.61]that English began to spread around the world.
[01:10.79]In 1607,British rulers established
[01:13.21]a colony³ in Virginia-
[01:14.93]the first permanent English- speaking
[01:17.01]settlement in North America.
[01:18.88]By the time the Americans
[01:20.42]won their independence from Britain
[01:22.06]in the 1780s,there were thirteen colonies
[01:25.36]and four million English-speaking people!
[01:27.44]

1 colonies   

n.殖民地( colony的名词复数 )；（侨民等）聚居区；（动植物的）群体；（来自同一地方，职业或兴趣相同的）聚居人群

参考例句：

• They amassed huge wealth by plundering the colonies. 他们通过掠夺殖民地聚敛了大笔的财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small farms and self-sufficiency. 但就整个殖民地来说，人们主要依靠小型农场，过着自给自足的生活。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

2 tribes   

n.部落( tribe的名词复数 )；（动、植物的）族；（一）帮；大群

参考例句：

• tribes living in remote areas of the Amazonian rainforest 居住在亚马孙河雨林偏远地区的部落
• In Africa the snake is still sacred with many tribes. 非洲许多部落仍认为蛇是不可冒犯的。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 colony   

n.殖民地；(同类人的)聚居地

参考例句：

• There lived a colony of bees on the tree.树上生活着一群蜜蜂。
• They live in an artists'colony.他们住在艺术家聚居区。