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摘要

English is what matters. It has dis-placed rivals to become the language of diplomacy, of business, of science, of the internet and of world culture. Many morepeople speak Chinese-but even they, in vast numbers, are trying to learn English. So how did it happen, and why? Robert McCrum's entertaining book tells the story of the triumph of English-and the way in which the language is now liberated from its original owners.