英语翻译Passage 8Language is one of the most important possessio

英语翻译
Passage 8
Language is one of the most important possessions of the human race.It makes possible the exchange of ideas between men and also the transmission of ideas from father to son.
Throughout history,people have been interested in knowing how language first began,but no one knows exactly where or how this happened.However,we do know a lot about languages,the language of today and also the language of earlier times.There are probably about three thousand languages in the world today.Chinese is the language with the most speakers.English,Hindi-Urdu,Russian and Spanish are also spoken by millions of people.On the other hand,some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.
There are several important families of languages in the world.For example,most of the languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo-European.The original language of this family was spoken about 4,500 years ago.Many of the present-day languages of Europe and India are modern forms of the language of 4,500 years ago.
Languages are always changing.The English of today is very different from the English of 500 years ago.In time,some languages become more important and others become less important.Some even die outcome palely.About 1,000 years ago,English was a little-known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
If a language has a large number of speakers,or if it is very old,there may be differences in the way it is spoken in different areas.That is,the language may have several dialects.Chinese is a good example of dialect differences.Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many millions of speakers.The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of Chinese from some parts of China cannot understand speakers from other parts.
There are other kinds of dialects in addition to local dialects.In some languages we find words or expressions and even grammatical forms which are used only by men and others used only by women.Furthermore,each generation uses its own slang expressions and grandparents and grandchildren may sometimes have difficulty in understanding each other.
So we see that languages may be very different at different periods of history.And even at one particular point of time,a language may have numerous dialects based on the geographical location,the education,the sex,or the age of the speakers of the language.
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语言是人类最为重要的财富之一.它使得意见的交换成为可能,也使思想可以代代相传.纵观历史,人们一直对语言的起源感兴趣,但是没人知道它从哪里起源,有是怎么发生的.然而,我们确实对古代和现代的语言有很深入的了解.时至今日,全世界越有3000种语言,中文是说的人数最多的语言.英语,印第安语,俄语和西班牙语也被数以百万计的人们使用.然而,还有些语言却只有不足千人会讲.世界上有一些非常重要的语系.例如,欧洲绝大多数语言源于印欧语系.这个语系最早可追溯到4500年之前.现存的许多欧洲和印第安语是4500前的这种语言的现代形式.语言也会逐渐改变.现在的英语与500年前相比已经发生了许多变化.随着时间的流逝,有些语言变得越来越重要,而其他的语言却变得越来越不重要,有些甚至逐渐被忘记.越1000年前,英语还作为德语的亲戚,为少数人所知,仅在欧洲边缘被使用.如果一种语言有众多的使用者,或者特别古老,那么可能在不同地区,说法可能有所不同.因此,语言可能有许多种地区口音.中文被数以百万计的人们使用了几千年,中国不同地区的发音就会很不同,一些地区的人们甚至都听不懂其他地区人们说的中文.
除了地区差异引起的口音差异之外,还有一些其他原因.我们发现在一些语言中,有些单词或者表达,甚至是语法形式,有些只能被男性使用,而有些则只能被女性使用.
此外,每一代人都会使用他们自己的俚语表达.祖辈与孙辈之间有时会听不懂彼此的语言.
因此,我们能看出,在历史不同阶段,语言也不尽相同.甚至是在一个特别的时间点,一种语言可能由于使用者的地理位置、教育程度、性别或者年龄的不同,而有不同的形式.
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