给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识_BEC初级作文

给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识

1. It is the only major language without an academy to guide it.

英语是唯一没有学术机构加以规正的大语种。

L’Académie française, based in Paris, is in charge of overseeing the French language. For Spanish there is the Real Academia Española. German has the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung. There is no equivalent to L’Académie for English. Of the 10 most-widely spoken languages in the world, only English has no academy guiding it.

法兰西文学院位于巴黎，负责审查法语。对于西班牙语，有西班牙皇家学院，德语有标准德语德语正字法协会。而英语则没有相应的文学院。世界十大使用最为广泛的口语中，唯有英语没有学术研究院引领。

2. More than 1 billion people are learning English as you read this.

你读这篇文章的时候，有超过10亿的人正在学英语。

According to the British Council, around 1 billion people around the world were learning English in 2000. This figure is now likely to be significantly higher.

据英国文化委员会的调查数据显示，在2000年，全球有10亿左右的人正在学习英语。如今这个数字很可能有了更为显著的提高。

3. 96 of the 100 most common English words are Germanic.

英语中100个最常用词中96个来自日耳曼语。

Of the hundred most frequently used words in English, 96 have Germanic roots. Together, those 100 words make up more than 50% of the Oxford English Corpus, which currently contains over 2 billion words found in writing around the world.