lingua franca

noun

1. （母语不同的人共用的）通用语
   a shared language of communication used between people whose main languages are different
   1. 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。

1. N-SING （母语不同的人之间使用的）通用语，交际语，混合语
   A lingua franca is a language or way of communicating which is used between people who do not speak one another's native language.
   1. English is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of Asia.
      英语正迅速成为亚洲的通用语。

1. English is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of Asia.
   英语正迅速成为亚洲的通用语。
2. Dzongkha is the national language and lingua franca.
   Dzongkha是不丹的民族语言，是一种混合语。
3. It's not controversial to describe XML as the lingua franca of modern computing.
   将XML描述为现代计算技术的通用语言并不过分。
4. However you use it informally, formally, extensively, or casually UML is the lingua franca of software development.
   无你非正式地，正式地，广泛地，或偶然地使用它，UML是软件开发的混合语言。
5. Some say that JSON has replaced XML as the new lingua franca of Internet data exchange.
   有人说JSON已经取代XML作为新的Internet数据交换的通用语。
6. XML is the lingua franca of modern computing.
   XML是现代计算的通用语言。
7. Messaging technology is at the core of SOA, and XML has emerged as the lingua franca of data representation and exchange across applications.
   消息传递技术是SOA的核心技术，XML已经成为跨应用程序数据表示和交换的通用语言。
8. This ensures that all agents have some form of lingua franca.
   这确保了所有代理均具有某些格式的通用语。
9. Since Web services are standards-based, they provide a lingua franca of a second, higher level.
   由于Web服务是基于标准的，因此提供了较高级别的第二个通用语言。
10. In the 17th century, Chinese Pidgin English originated as a lingua franca for trade between British people and mostly Cantonese-speaking Chinese people.
    17世纪，洋泾浜英语作为英国人和大多数讲广东话的中国人做生意时的共通语产生了。
11. English has taken its place as the world's lingua franca, but it's not pushing out other languages.
    英语已经成为世界的通用语，但它并不排挤其他语言。
12. So it has now become the lingua franca in the world.
    因此它已成为世界同用语言。
13. Which, by way of a forward, brings us to the development of Chinese as a lingua franca.
    通过前面这些给我们带来的是汉语作为一门混合语的发展。
14. A Bantu language of the Kongo used as a lingua franca in southern congo, western zaire, and Northern angola.
    刚果语刚果人讲的一种班图语，在刚果南部、扎伊尔西部和安哥拉北部用作一种通用语言。
15. The standard provides a lingua franca that businesspeople, business analysts and IT architects can use to collaboratively design, deploy and monitor business processes.
    这个标准提供了一种通用语言，业务人员、业务分析师和IT架构师能够使用它来一起开发、部署和监视业务流程。
16. The legal system is English, and English is the lingua franca of business.
    这里的司法体系是英格兰式的，英语也是商场上的交际语言。
17. Today, like it or not, English is the closest thing to lingua franca around the globe.
    今天，不管你喜欢不喜欢，英语是世界上最接近共同语言的一种语言。
18. Both English and Cantonese are lingua franca.
    英语和粤语是通用语言。
19. Chinook Jargon: a pidgin language combining words from Nootka, Chinook, Salishan languages, French, and English, formerly used as a lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest.
    奇努克混合语：一种由努特卡语、奇努克语、萨利希语、法语和英语组合起来的混杂语言，旧时被用作太平洋西北岸地区的通用语。
20. There are a few differences in grammar, too. In the German-speaking areas, German is the lingua franca. The ordinary people do not speak French but understand it.
    在语法上，英式英语和美式英语也有一些区别。在德语区内，通用的是德文与德语，普通人虽不讲法语却听得懂法语。
21. There are a variety of important algorithms and data structures that are the lingua franca of computer science.
    计算机科学是一门语言的学科，它有各种各样的重要算法和数据结构。
22. In the German-speaking areas, German is the lingua franca.
    在德语区内，通用的是德文与德语。
23. The fundamental contention of The Last Lingua Franca is that civilisation is growing more multilingual.
    《最后的通用语》一书的基本观点就是文明的发展必将呈现多种语言齐头并进的态势。
24. Will Mandarin speakers come roaring back into the lead? Or will English reign as the global lingua franca?
    普通话人群又将跃居第一，还是英语作为全球通用语独占鳌头？
25. English may increasingly be the lingua franca of international business, but some of its vagaries can cause confusion, as Mandarin speaker Zhan Chunxin and Italian speaker Maurizio Ferrari have discovered.
    说汉语的詹纯新和说意大利语的毛里齐奥费拉里（maurizioferrari）发现，或许英语已经日益成为国际商务中的通用语言，但其中某些变幻莫测的特点也会造成语义混淆。
26. Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East africa.
    东非的主要交际语是斯瓦希里语。
27. Among a large variety of languages in the world, lingua franca, pidgin and Creole are hardly known to the public.
    在世界诸多语系和语种中，混合语、洋泾浜和克里奥尔语等“边缘”语言不为大众所了解。
28. Certainly by the12th century scholars were teaching in the town, Latin being the lingua franca, and their renown had spread to the continent, particularly to the Sorbonne in paris, then europe's greatest centre of learning.
    十二世纪末时肯定有学者在此讲学，拉丁语成了讲各种语言者的共同语言。他们的声望远至欧洲大陆，尤其传到了当时欧洲最大的学术中心巴黎的索本神学院。
29. Latin was the lingua franca of the Roman empire.
    拉丁语是岁马帝国的通用语言。

noun

1. a common language used by speakers of different languages
   1. Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times

   Synonym:    interlanguagekoine