A polyglot , varied country like the united states needs a national lingua franca , something that allows the members of any minority subculture to communi - cate on a friendly basis with people from vastly differ - ent backgrounds 一个像美国一样语言混杂的国家需要一种世界语，使各个亚文化的成员能够与背景极其不同的人们友好地交流。
At the mention of monte cristo dant s started with joy ; he rose to conceal his emotion , and took a turn around the smoky tavern , where all the languages of the known world were jumbled in a lingua franca 提到基督山岛，唐太斯就兴奋得心跳加速，为了掩饰自己的情绪，他站起身来，在那烟雾腾腾，集世界上各种各样的语言为一种混合语的独桅船上兜了一个圈。
Forget esperanto . too straightforward . the lingua franca that is increasingly spanning the globe is a tongue - twisting accounting - speak that is forcing even americans to rethink some precious notions of financial sovereignty 过于超前的“世界语”已经被人遗弃。人们在推广“会计世界语”的过程中同样遇到了磕磕碰碰，目空一切的美国人也开始重新考虑金融主权问题中一些有价值的理念。
When the conversations moves on to television , as it does regularly … ( television and movies being the lingua franca of boys from six to that ever - moving outer boundary of adolescence ) … , the boy is a dunce 当谈话从球赛转向视频游戏时，这个孩子成了一个失败者；当交谈继续下去、进而转向电视的时候? ?就像通常情况那样（在6岁至青春期之前的男孩子眼里，电视和电影是同一种东西） ? ?这个男孩成了一个傻瓜。
At one level , this is simply incorrect : in our vicinity , cultural studies programmes are forming in many languages chinese , japanese and korean , for example , although there is no doubt that english is the regional lingua franca in which such programmes talk to each other as well the global academy 墨美姬教授认为，这说法是绝对与事实不符的：环顾我们的邻近地区，文化研究课程正以多种语言例如中文日文及韩文在形成但无可置疑的是，这些课程都以英语作为地区性的共同语言，以及与全球学术界沟通的媒介。
