| Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. |
使用多种语言是指个人或者语言群体使用一种以上语言的情况。 |
| It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. |
普遍认为，世界人口中使用多种语言的人多于只使用一种语言的人。 |
| More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue;nevertheless, many of these are monoscriptual. |
一半以上的欧洲人声称，除母语之外至少还使用另一种语言。然而，其中许多人只使用单个字符。 |
| Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness. |
由于全球化和文化开放的需要，使用多种语言正在成为一种社会现象。 |
| Owing to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages is becoming increasingly frequent, thereby promoting a need to acquire additional languages. |
互联网为获取信息提供了便利，个人也越来越频繁地接触到多种语言，由此促进多学一种语言的需要。 |
| People who speak several languages are also called polyglots. |
会说几种语言的人也称为多种语言使用者。 |
| Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least one language during childhood, the so-called first language (L1). |
说多种语言者在童年时期学会并保持至少一种语言，即所谓的第一语言（L1)。 |
| The first language (sometimes also referred to as the mother tongue) is acquired without formal education, by mechanisms heavily disputed. |
第一语言（有时称为母语）并不是通过正规教育习得的，人们对其习得机制争论不一。 |
| Children acquiring two languages in this way are called simultaneous bilinguals. |
以同样的方法学会两种语言的儿童称为同时使用两种语言的人。 |
| Even in the case of simultaneous bilinguals, one language usually dominates the other. |
即使是同时使用两种语言的人，其中一种语言处于主导地位，另一种语言处于被主导地位。 |
| People who know more than one language have been reported to be more adept at language learning compared to monolinguals. |
有报告称，会一种以上语言的人相只会一种语言的人更擅长语言学习。 |
| Additionally, bilinguals often have important economic advantages over monolingual individuals as bilingual people are able to carry out duties that monolinguals cannot, such as interacting with customers who only speak a minority language. |
除此之外，双语使用者比一语使用者更有经济上的优势，因为双语使用者能够完成一语使用者无法完成的任务，比如同只说一种少数民族语言的顾客交流。 |
| Multilingualism in computing can be considered part of a continuum between internationalization and localization. |
信息处理技术中多语使用可视为国际化和本土化进程中的一个环节。 |
| Due to the status of English in computing, software development nearly always uses it (but see also Non-English-based programming languages), so almost all commercial software is initially available in an English version, and multilingual versions, if any, may be produced as alternative options based on the English original. |
由于英语在信息处理技术中的重要地位，软件开发几乎一直使用英语（但也参见基于非英语的程序语言），因此几乎所有商用软件最初只有英文版；即使有多语版，也是在英语原版的基础上产生的替代版本。 |
