lingua franca

常見例句

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年前後，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，盡琯現(xiàn)今BPMN 1.1充儅了重要的角色，但它還遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)沒有實現(xiàn)它作爲(wèi)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.
另一方麪，英語可能會失去它作爲(wèi)世界通用語的地位，學(xué)習(xí)英語也將變得沒那麼重要，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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