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基本解釋

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。
Mr Ostler is surely right about the nationalist limits to the spread of English as a mother-tongue.
Ostler先生確信民族主義者限制英語作為母語的傳播是做得對(duì)的。
Improvements in translation technology will not change this by making it less important to learn second languages at all, despite claims such as Nicholas Ostler’s in The Last Lingua Franca.
翻譯技術(shù)的改善使得學(xué)習(xí)第二語言不再那么重要，但這并不會(huì)導(dǎo)致任何改變，盡管存在如Nicholas Ostler在《最后的通用語言》（The Last Lingua Franca）中所聲稱的。

Nicholas Ostler, a scholar who heads the Foundation for Endangered Languages, a non-profit group based in Britain, says multilingual children do better academically than monolingual ones.
ECONOMIST: Endangered languages

in the past, someone who took care of people's horses when they stopped at an inn (= a place where you can stay for a night while on a journey)