Why is English now considered to be so prestigious that, across the globe, individuals and societies feel disadvantaged if they do not have competence in this language?

为什么英语现在被视为如此有声望的语言，以至于在全球范围内，如果个人和团体没有掌握这门语言，就会感到自身处于不利地位？

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Teachers have to constantly update their knowledge in order to maintain their professional competence.

教师必须不断更新他们的知识，以保持他们的专业能力。

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And the third ingredients I found in this group I studied was they have basic competence in the fields in which they were dealing.

我在研究的这组人中发现的第三个,特征是他们都在,从事的领域中有基本的能力。

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Because you'll have an appropriate level of confidence and competence in your ability to do computational problem solving.

因为你们在自己的能力范围内,拥有应对解决计算问题的,正当水平的自信心和竞争力。

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You could argue that Medicare administrators have fallen down on the job in terms of putting downward pressure on the price charged by service providers, but private insurance have not shown any competence in this matter either.

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Challenges based on such factors, which engage biases far deeper than any purported rooting interest in a case, have been swatted down so often that a law clerk of even middling competence could prepare an opinion in less than half a day for a judge facing such a challenge.

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However, they should only work in the NHS if they have proven their competence and language skills.

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