例如，英语经常是各种会议的通用语，天文学、儿童心理学和动物学等领域的许多期刊文章都将英语作为一种默认语言。
It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, child psychology and zoology have English as a kind of default language.
一些国家用英语作为官方语言，并用它履行行政职能；而在其他国家，它被用作商业、贸易和工业的国际通用语言。
Some nations use English as their official language, performing the function of administration; in others it is used as an international language for business, commerce and industry.
奥斯勒声称英语作为通用语前景每况愈下，这并不是因为会有其他的语言取而代之。
English will fade as a lingua-franca, Mr Ostler argues, but not because some other language will take its place.
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