as mother tongue的意思|示意

Incisive eloquence—in Latin and Greek as well as their mother tongue—was common fare among Georgians and Victorians lucky enough to have had at least a dozen years of schooling.

乔治王时代或维多利亚时代的人，只要足够幸运受过十几年教育，不管是在拉丁语希腊语还是他们自己的母语方面，通常都有着敏锐的口才。

That includes around 400m who speak it as their mother tongue and about the same number who speak it fluently as their second language.

其中，约4亿的人以英语为母语，另外还有同样数目的人把英语作为第二语言熟练使用。

In practice, however, English, the mother tongue of only 8% of South Africans, has taken over as the lingua franca.

然而实际上，仅为8%南非人母语的英语现在已经俨然成为了混合方言。

This research regards language teaching as a whole system, including mother tongue teaching and English teaching. Each system includes listening, speaking, reading and writing.

视整个语言教学为一个系统，包括母语教学和英语教学两个分系统，每种语言教学系统又都包括听、说、读、写四个部分。

In different countries around the globe, English is acquired as the mother tongue; in others it is used as a second language.

在世界各地的不同国家，英语作为母语被习得；在其他地方，它被用作第二语言。

English has become a truly international language with more speakers of English as a second language than as a first or mother tongue.

英语已经成为真正的国际语言，因为把英语作为第二语言的人数已经超过以英语为第一语言或母语的人数。