英国脱欧后,英语也要脱欧？.docx

英国脱欧后，英语也要脱欧？After Brexit, French Politicians Want English Language Out Of EU Too?Is the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union going to deal a fatal blow to the language of Shakespeare on the continent? English, one of the 24 official languages of the EU, is very much spoken in Brussels and in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. But according to certain leading French politicians, its status after the Brexit should be questioned.?英国脱离欧盟会对英语在欧洲大陆的使用产生致命的影响吗？英语，是欧盟24种官方语言之一，在布鲁塞尔和欧洲议会所在地斯特拉斯堡都非常盛行。但是据某法国政要说，英国脱欧后，英语的地位也应受到质疑。On Friday morning, the mayor of the southern French town of Béziers, Robert Ménard — a man with close ties to the National Front — reckoned that English no longer had “any legitimacy” in Brussels.?法国南部城市贝济耶市市长罗伯特?麦纳德与国民阵线有非常密切的联系，周五上午，他说他猜测英语在布鲁塞尔不再具有“任何合法性”。Left-wing presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who supports moving away from European treaties, has, for his part, said that English can no longer be “the third working language” of the European Parliament.?左翼总统候选人让?吕克?梅朗松支持把英语从欧盟协议中去除，他个人认为英语不能再是欧洲议会“第三大工作语言”了。In various ways, they’re both wrong. The very complex operation of multilingualism in European institutions doesn’t rely on the single criterion of a member state’s membership in — or withdrawal from — the EU.?从多种角度看，他们都错了。欧盟复杂的多语种工作机制并不依赖于成员国留下或退出欧盟这一单一标准。The EU’s official languages are communicative languages recognized by the institutions. At the inception of the European structure, during the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951, there were four: French, German, Italian and Dutch. Today there are 24 of these official languages, including Bulgarian, Danish, Croatian and, obviously, English. In the European Parliament, all documents and discussions must be translated simultaneously into the 24 languages.?欧盟的官方语言是由组织机构认定的交流语言。在欧盟的初始阶段，在1951年欧洲煤钢共同体成立期间，有四种工作语言：法语、德语、意大利语和荷兰语。如今有24种官方语言，包括保加利亚语、丹麦语、克罗地亚语，当然了，还有英语。在欧洲议会，所有的文件和会议讨论都必须同时译成24种语言。The official language of a member state doesn’t aut