英文写作手册中文翻译(13)

out, must be surprisingly large. But we need not be worried about the impossibility of learning all of them, for only a few thousand words are used by ordinary people for ordinary purposes. These are the most useful words, or the common words, words that form the core of the English vocabulary. They are the words we must learn and remember.

英语语言中有数万个单词，随着社会和科学进步，新词汇频繁问世。如果都能被发现，英语词汇的总数一定是出人意料的庞大。但我们不必苦恼无法全部学会，就普通用途而言，普通人仅会用到几千词汇，这些用途最广或常见的词汇组成了英语词汇的核心，我们必须学会并牢记。

Apart from the common words, there are words used by people of special professions or fields on special occasions or for special purposes. Among these are political, legal, scientific, technical, business and literary words. It would be good for us to know some very useful words in various fields, and many of the words related to the field we will work in or be associated with. These words are generally formal, and may be called formal and technical words.

除常见词汇外，还有一些单词由特殊专业或领域的人在特定场合或为特殊目的而使用。其中包括政治、法律、科学、技术、商业和文学词汇。这将有益于我们了解一些很有用的不同