One concern critics have with this term is that anyone who is born in America can be considered a Native American, making it too vague to use as a descriptor for a particular group of people.
一个有争议的批评是:任何一个出生在美洲的人都可以被称为一个美洲原住民,用这个词来描述一个特定群组的人显的太含糊。
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。
People feel that they have a natural right to throw away as much stuff as they like, just as those lucky native Americans chucked the shells from their plentiful oyster piles over their shoulders.
人们总是觉得,他们天生有权利任由喜好的随意丢弃垃圾,想扔多少扔多少,就好像那些幸运的土著美国人可以拍掉已经多到淹没肩头的量牡蛎壳那样。
In truth, more and more native English-speakers see less and less point in learning other languages because so many people speak English, so well, as a foreign language.
实际上,越来越多的英语为母语者觉得学习其他语言没什么必要,因为许多外国人已把英语当作一门外语说得倍儿溜。
More subtly, as native Anglophones are increasingly outnumbered by people who speak English as a second language, the future of their own language is passing from their hands.
更重要的是,将英语作为第二语言的人数正在超过以英语作为母语的人,而他们自己的语言的未来正在他们自己手中消逝。
These people love their life as much as you do and would probably never agree to leave their native village if they had a chance.
这些人们热爱他们的生活正如你我。就算给他们机会,他们也许也永远也不会离开他们的故乡。
People use a language in one of three ways: as a native language, as a second language, or as a foreign language.
人们以三种方式中的一种来使用一种语言:本国语言、第二语言、外国语言。
Native American people formerly located along Massachusetts Bay from Plymouth north to Salem. Reduced by epidemics, the Massachusett ceased to exist as a people during the17th century.
马萨诸塞族北美本土民族,早期定居在马萨诸塞湾的从宝丽口北部到沙龙地区。因传染病而人口减少,该民族在17世纪消亡。
Very few people learn to use a foreign language as well as a native speaker does.
很少有人能学会和外国当地人一样使用英语。
Very few people learn to use a foreign language as well as a native speaker does.
很少有人能学会和外国当地人一样使用英语。
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