Like it or not, English has become the international language of communication. While more people speak Mandarin as a native tongue, English is the language most used as a second language.

不管你是否愿意，英语已经成为用于交流的一种国际语言，当更多的人以普通话为母语时，英语则成为使用最多的第二语言。

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Learning a second language, particularly when that language is not one that the person has to use on a regular basis, is an extremely difficult task.

学习第二语言——尤其是当这种语言对于这个人来说不常用时——是一项极为艰巨的任务。

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Unsurprisingly, the second most used programming language in the world, namely C++, could not help but to fall prey to the temptation of a DLL.

很显然世界上使用人数排第二的编程语言是C++，但它却不得不被DLL所诱惑。

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The zipper suddenly finds that the tricks that it has picked up to encode the first language are not much help in encoding the second.

ECONOMIST: Computers and language

"Because virtual worlds like Second Life do not impose language barriers like the web does - that almost certainly means their ultimate utility range is larger, " he said.

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Language, it appears, remains a persistent barrier to international marriage in Europe and the spread of English as a second language does not seem to have changed that.

ECONOMIST: International marriage