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Globalization is the process of things — especially business, money, news, and culture — spreading so that they work across many countries, or the result of that process. A company that sells the same phone in fifty countries is part of it; so is food from far away in a Taiwan supermarket, or a film everyone watches in the same week.
Globalization is the process of thingsGlobalization(全球化)是一種過程——especially business, money, news, and culture尤其是商業、金錢、新聞,還有文化——spreading so that they work across many countries擴散到能在很多國家運作, or the result of that process或者也指這個過程的結果。 A company that sells the same phone in fifty countries is part of it一家在五十個國家賣同一款手機的公司就是其中一部分;so is food from far away in a Taiwan supermarket台灣超市裡來自遙遠地方的食物也是, or a film everyone watches in the same week或是一部大家在同一週都在看的電影也是。
People also talk about cultural globalization: songs, clothes, and slang crossing borders. The word is common in news, school, and business.
People also talk about cultural globalization人們也會談論 cultural globalization(文化全球化):songs, clothes, and slang crossing borders就是歌曲、服裝,還有流行語跨越國界。 The word is common in news, school, and business這個字在新聞、學校,還有商業界都很常見。
Some speakers praise it (cheaper goods, more contact); some fear it (local shops dying, the same shops on every street).
Some speakers praise it有些人稱讚它 (cheaper goods, more contact)(東西變便宜、聯繫變多);some fear it也有些人害怕它 (local shops dying, the same shops on every street)(在地小店消失、每條街都是一樣的連鎖店)。
Though actually, the word names a process, not a moral. You still have to say whether you think the process is fair.
Though actually不過其實, the word names a process, not a moral這個字說的是一個過程,不是一個道德判斷。 You still have to say你還是得自己判斷 whether you think the process is fair你覺得這個過程公不公平。
組成globalize + -ation. Globalize is global + -ize (“to make”). -ation turns the verb into a process or result. Global itself is globe + -al.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
globalizationnoun/ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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American and Oxford British English standard spelling of globalisation.
- He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。