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单词 world language
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world language
world language n. (a) a language universally read and spoken by educated people; a language spoken in many countries; (b) a (natural or artificial) language for international use. [Compare German Weltsprache language for international use (1828; earlier in (now obsolete) senses ‘secular language’ (mid 18th cent.), original language of humankind (mid 17th cent.)).]
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trade language1662
world language1855
supralanguage1969
1855 R. C. Trench Eng. Past & Present i. 39 In truth the English language..may with all right be called a world-language.
1867 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. xii. 469 If we expect..that our tongue become one day a world-language, understood and employed on every continent.., then it is our bounden duty [etc.].
1889 Athenæum 24 Aug. 256/3 The two classical and four great modern ‘world-languages’.
1921 E. P. Foster (title) Roap. English key to Ro, the World Language.
1962 Listener 27 Sept. 467/1 The more pidginised the language becomes, obviously the less useful English can be as a world language.
2002 D. M. Taylor Quest for Identity ii. 26 The dichotomous division into English and non-English does not capture the fact for some groups non-English refers to a world language such as, for example, Japanese.
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