| Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. |
多语主义是指单个或一群发言者使用一种以上的语言。 |
| It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. |
人们相信世界上多语人口的数量比单语人口更多。 |
| More than half of all Europeans claim to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue;nevertheless, many of these are monoscriptual. |
欧洲一半以上的人口称自己除了母语还会说至少一种其他语言；尽管如此，这其中许多人使用的文字系统则是单一的。 |
| Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness. |
多语主义在全球化和文化开放的需要下正在演变为一种社会现象。 |
| 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. |
借由互联网获取信息的便利性，人们越发频繁地接触到多语种，因而催生出习得新语言的需要。 |
| People who speak several languages are also called polyglots. |
会说几种语言的人也称为复语者。 |
| Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least one language during childhood, the so-called first language (L1). |
多语种的人在童年习得并一直使用着至少一种语言，也就是所谓的第一语言（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（有时也叫做母语）无需正式的教育就能习得，这一点在不同的语言学习机制中饱受争议。 |
| Children acquiring two languages in this way are called simultaneous bilinguals. |
通过这种方式同时习得两种语言的儿童称为同步双语者。 |
| Even in the case of simultaneous bilinguals, one language usually dominates the other. |
即便如此，同步双语者的语言系统通常由一种语言主导。 |
| People who know more than one language have been reported to be more adept at language learning compared to monolinguals. |
研究报告称，掌握一种以上语言的人比单一语言的人更擅长学习新的语言。 |
| 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. |
此外，双语者通常拥有更强的经济优势，因为他们能够胜任单语者所完成不了的工作，比如可以和说小语种的客户交流。 |
| Multilingualism in computing can be considered part of a continuum between internationalization and localization. |
在计算机领域多语主义是国际化和本地化中间的一部分。 |
| 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. |
由于英语在计算机领域的主流地位，软件开发通常使用英语进行编程（也存在非英语编程语言），因此几乎所有商业软件最初的发行版本都是英文版。并且如果有其他语种的版本，也是基于英文版的本地化。 |
