【译林湖南版创新设计】2011高考英语一轮复习提能训练Module3Unit2LanguageⅠ
填词AWEBSITEcalledtheGlobalLanguageMonitorrecently(日前)announcedthattheEnglishlanguagenowhasover1millionwords
Wordnumber1,000,000is“Web2
0”.MostAmericanshaveavocabularyofabout20,000words
ThemostfamousEnglishspeakerinhistory,WilliamShakespeare,used30,000wordsinhisplays
That’salot,butit’snotevencloseto1million
Sowheredoallofthesewordscomefrom
Englishlikestoborrowwordsfromotherlanguages
Taketheword“fiancé”,aFrenchtermforsomeonewho’sengaged(订婚).Englishspeakersdon’thaveawordoftheirowntodescribethis,sotheyjustusetheFrench
Don’tforget“fengshui”,theChinesetermnowusedbyEnglishspeakerswhowanttoarrange(布置)theirfurnitureinharmony(和谐).IntheageoftheInternet,theEnglishlanguageisgrowingmorequickly
Someexpertsbelievethatasmanyas15wordsjointheEnglishlanguageever