lingua

English is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of Asia.

英语正迅速成为亚洲的通用语。

English has become a lingua franca in many parts of the world.

英语在世界上许多地方都成了通用语。

There are, in fact, a number of interlocking reasons for the popularity of English as a lingua franca.

事实上，英语之所以成为通用语，有许多相互关联的原因。

It became a lingua franca in India, where a variety of indigenous languages made the use of any one of them as a whole-country system problematic.

它成为了印度的通用语，在这里各种各样的本土语言使得使用任何一种语言作为一个全国系统都有问题。

It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, child psychology and zoology have English as a kind of default language.

例如，英语经常是各种会议的通用语，天文学、儿童心理学和动物学等领域的许多期刊文章都将英语作为一种默认语言。