For example, when an Indian talks to a Singaporean using English, then English is the lingua franca.

例如，当一个印度人用英语和一个新加坡人谈话时，英语就是通用语。

Urdu, the lingua franca of Pakistan, is necessary but less familiar.

巴基斯坦的通用语乌尔都语不可或缺，但并不为人熟知。

In our next lecture, I am going to talk about lingua franca and its functions.

下一讲，我将讲通用语及其功能。

If aid workers are lucky, they may find people who know Kanuri, a kind of lingua franca in Borno.

如果幸运的话，救援人员可能会找到懂卡努里语（博尔诺州的一种通用语言）的人。

(Laughter) Memes are our internet's lingua franca.

（笑声） 模因是我们互联网的通用语。

French was the lingua franca. France was in vogue.

法语是通用语。 法国很流行。

Russian became the lingua franca, needed for any serious work.

俄语成为了任何严肃工作所需要的通用语。

Some linguists believe it to be a form of proto Lingua Franca, which gradually formed the Belarusian Ukrainian dialectal continuum.

一些语言学家认为它是原始通用语的一种形式，逐渐演变成统一的白俄罗斯乌克兰方言。

The sailors had a lingua franca, which centered on English and Spanish and Portuguese.

水手们有一种通用语言，主要是英语、西班牙语和葡萄牙语。

Now, lingua franca, literal, franca, franca.

现在，lingua franca，字面意思，franca，franca。

It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example.

例如，它常常是会议的通用语言。

Although English is not the language with the largest number of native or first language speakers, it has really become a lingua franca.

虽然把英语作为母语或是第一语言的人不是最多的，但它确实成为了一种通用语。

But in general the whaling lingua franca is English.

但总的来说，捕鲸活动的通用语言是英语。

That morning, he perceived a change in Franca’s mood.

【perceive】那天早上，他注意到弗兰卡情绪的变化。

Capitalized Lingua Franca is actually a pigeon language, but that's a topic for another day.

大写的 Lingua Franca 实际上是一种鸽子语言，但这是另一天的话题。

She still inhabited the Palace de Villa-Franca, the Possessors of which treated her with marked affection.

她仍然住在维拉弗兰卡宫， 那里的主人对她非常亲切。

He proposed himself to the Marquis de Villa-Franca, and was accepted with joy and gratitude.

他向维拉-弗兰卡侯爵求婚， 并欣然接受。

Any intelligent organism would at the very least need the ability to locate the position of objects in space. So the ideal interstellar lingua franca would be haptic.

任何智能生物最少都需要有知晓物体在空间中所在位置的能力。所以最理想的星际沟通方式应该是触觉。

It has relatively few native speakers – estimates range from 2 million to 18 million – but has spread across the continent as a lingua franca.

以它为母语的人相对较少——估计在200万到1800万之间——但它已经作为一种通用语传遍了整个欧洲大陆。

With over 1.5 billion people speaking English worldwide, it is no surprise that it is often considered the " lingua franca" of the world.

全球有超過15億人說英語, 毫不奇怪, 英語通常被認為是世界的" 通用語" 。