研究生英语阅读教材第一课长难句

1. For English is a killer. It is English that has killed off Cumbric, Cornish,Norn and Manx. There are still parts of these islands where sizeable communities speak languages that were there before English. Yet English is everywhere in everyday use and understood by all or virtually all, constituting such a threat to the three remaining Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh… that their long-term future must be considered… very greatly at risk.
   因为英语是个杀手。正是英语造成了康瑞克、康尼施、诺恩、曼科斯等语言的消亡。在其中一部分岛上还有相当多的人使用在英语到来之前就已存在的语言。然而，英语在日常使用中无处不在。所有人或者几乎所有人都懂英语。英语对现存的凯尔特语、爱尔兰语、苏格兰盖尔语及威尔士语的威胁如此之大······所以必须意识到，从长远来看这三种语言的未来岌岌可危。
2. He also associated such policies with a prejudice which he calls linguisticism(a condition parallel to racism and sexism). As Phillipson sees it, leading institutions and individuals within the predominantly “white” English-speaking world, have(by design or default) encouraged or at least tolerated-and certainly have not opposed- the h