Improvements in translationtechnologywillnotchangethis by making itlessimportant to learnsecondlanguages at all, despiteclaimssuch asNicholasOstler'sinTheLast LinguaFranca.
翻译技术的改善使得学习第二语言不再那么重要,但这并不会导致任何改变,尽管存在如nicholasOstler在《最后的通用语言》(TheLast Lingua Franca)中所声称的。
While it's impossible to say that any particular event was "caused by global warming, " says Shepherd, climate change loads the deck, making extreme events such as last year's Superstorm Sandy more likely.