If he is right about the technology too, future generations will come to see English as something like calligraphy or Latin: prestigious and traditional, but increasingly dispensable.

如果他有关技术的观点也是正确的话，那么英语在后代人眼中就如同书法和拉丁文一样，受人敬仰，韵味悠长，但日益可有可无。

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The Latin manuscript might have been penned hundreds of years earlier and then these explanatory notes added right there on the old pages either crowded between the lines or off in the margin.

这些拉丁原稿也许早在几百年前便已被书写成文，而后人们或直接在古书行与行或页边空白之间添加这些解释的集注。

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If we do things right, this 21st century will be our century, the century of Latin America.

假如我们做了正确的事情，这个廿一世纪将是我们的世纪，拉丁美洲的世纪。

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The plan succeeded. Some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean questioned the right of the United States to act as policeman for the Western Hemisphere.

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