Now, to sum up, in today's lecture, we have reviewed some of the reasons or factors that lie behind the popular use of English as the number one world language.

现在，总结一下，在今天的课上，我们回顾了英语作为世界第一语言的流行背后的一些原因或因素。

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One of the most famous, Global Voices, which translates blogs and articles from around the world into English, even used Mr. Soong's site as a model when it was founded at Harvard.

很著名的一个叫“全球之声”，它把来自全球的博客和文章翻译成英语，创立于哈佛时甚至以宋先生的网站作为模板。

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If no one knew anything about the history of the Turkey being introduced to the English speaking world, this might seem very plausible.

如果没人知悉火鸡被引入说英语国家的历史，这一说法也许颇为蛊惑人心。

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World War One destroyed an English generation.

一战摧毁了一代英国人。

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Murdoch closed the Sunday tabloid, one of the world's best-selling English-language newspapers, in 2011 over the phone-hacking scandal.

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L.V. requires you to take two courses in English (Composition and World Literature), one course in philosophy, one course in either history or political science, courses in chemistry, mathematics, and economics, and two electives in the arts and humanities.

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The King James, also known as the Authorised Version, remains one of the most frequently used Bibles in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States.

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