When it comes to speaking other people’s languages, the UK suffers from the winner’s curse. History — the British empire, followed by the US’s post-second world war hegemony — made English the world’s language and led Britons to conclude there was little point in learning anyone else’s.
就掌握外語而言,英國人遭受著勝利者的詛咒。歷史——大英帝國,之后是美國在第二次世界大戰(zhàn)后的霸主地位——令英語成為世界語言,并讓英國人得出學外語沒什么意義的結論。
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