北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 25(3)-4

[00:00.00]How do you feel it will have changed?
[00:01.87]Well, the English that's being
[00:02.91]spoken internationally,
[00:04.29]I think,for example, will have no longer,erm,
[00:07.80]say British-based or American-based idiomatic¹
[00:10.24]language because this is not useful for
[00:12.40]international communication
[00:13.77]so that will have gone.
[00:15.31]I think that, erm,quite probably,
[00:18.44]the nouns that we call,
[00:19.83]erm,uncountable nouns like "information"
[00:22.09]and so on,
[00:22.72]will have become countable² nouns for
[00:25.02]international use.
[00:26.31]I expect, in Britain,
[00:27.20]we'll carry on talking about,erm,
[00:29.61]information as a "piece of information",
[00:31.56]but quite possibly the rest of the world will
[00:33.91]be saying "three informations" without treating
[00:37.02]it as  an uncountable noun.
[00:38.44]I think, quite likely,
[00:39.81]the third-person-singular "s"
[00:41.35]in the Present Simple tense will have gone for
[00:44.13]international use.
[00:45.97]Erm, I think, in pronunciation,
[00:48.32]I think the "th" ([think]) sound will have gone
[00:50.41]and possibly the "th" ([the]) sound as well.
[00:50.41]

1 idiomatic   

adj.成语的，符合语言习惯的

参考例句：

• In our reading we should always be alert for idiomatic expressions.我们在阅读过程中应经常注意惯用法。
• In his lecture,he bore down on the importance of idiomatic usage in a language.他在演讲中着重强调了语言中习惯用法的重要性。

2 countable   

adj.可数的，可以计算的

参考例句：

• The word "person" is a countable noun.person这个词是个可数名词。
• Countable nouns have singular and plural forms.可数名词有单数和复数之分。