A Review of Monolingual Dictionaries for Advanced Learners of English in the 20(superscript th)Century

20世纪英语高阶学习词典研究

Guide to establishment and development of monolingual thesauri

单一文种主题词表的编制与改进指南

Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri

单语种主题词表的管理,格式和构建指南

But monolingual adults need to be reminded of the past too.

但我们也有必要让那些单语的成年人知道新加坡的历史。

As many people in America are discovering, being monolingual is no laughing matter

很多美国人都逐渐发现，只会一种语言，不再是一件好事了。

The OALDCE is a monolingual dictionary.

牛津高级当代英语字典是部只用一种语言的字典.

If such a view were to prevail, Singapore would eventually become a monolingual society and the bilingual policy would exist only in name.

如果让这种主张占主导，到头来，新加坡必成为单语社会，双语政策名存实亡。

By and by, Singaporeans turned bilingual. But there are still about half a million Chinese Singaporeans aged 30 to 54 who are primarily monolingual .

随着岁月的流逝，新加坡人大多能掌握双语，但还是有大约50万名年龄介于30至54岁的华族新加坡人只会讲一种语言。

Documentation; Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri

文献 单种语种叙词表编辑和修订指南

Documentation; Guidelines for the establishment and development of monolingual thesauri

文献工作.单语种主题词表编制导则

Guidelines for the establishment and development of thesauri; monolingual thesauri

主题词表的编制和扩充导则.单语种主题词表

"We found that seniors who are bilingual are able to activate their brain with a magnitude closer to young subjects. So they don’t need to expend as much effort, and yet they still out-perform their monolingual peers, suggesting they use their brain more efficiently."

“我们发现，双语老年人能够以接近年轻人的量值激活它们的大脑。因此他们无需付出更多努力就能胜过单语同龄人，这表明他们使用大脑更为有效。”

||1:So languages often wither and die when parents move abroad.||2:Consider America. The foreign-born share of the population is 13.7%, and has never been lower than 4.7% (in 1970).||3:And yet foreign- language speakers don’t accumulate: today just 25% of the population speaks another language.||4:That’s because, typically, the first generation born in America is bilingual, and the second is monolingual —in English, the children often struggling to speak easily with their immigrant grandparents.

||1:因此，父母移居国外时，母语会越说越少。||2:以美国为例。父母至少有一方是外国人的人口比例为13.7%，从未低于4.7%（1970年）。||3:然而讲外语的人并没有增多：如今只有25%的人口能讲外语。||4:这是因为，一般情况下这样的第一代能讲双语，到了第二代就只能讲一种语言，因而孩子们和移民祖父母（或外祖父母）交流总是有障碍。

In the study, the researchers asked people to sort colors and shapes in a series of simple exercises. Dr. Gold and his colleagues used brain imaging to compare how well three groups of people switched among these exercises. The groups were bilingual seniors, monolingual seniors and younger adults.

在这项研究中，研究人员要求人们在一系列简单练习中对颜色和形状分类。戈尔德博士和他的同事们使用脑成像技术来比较三组研究对象在这些练习中如何切换。这三组分别是双语老年人，单语老年人和青年。

Monolingual babies took no notice, but bilingual babies started looking at the video again.

单语宝宝们对此毫无察觉，但双语宝宝们重新开始观看视频。

But at 10-12 months of age, monolingual babies only responded to the English contrasting sound.

但是10-12个月大的单语宝宝只对英语的对比音有响应。

Australia: from a monolingual society to a multilingual society

论澳大利亚从单语社会到多语社会的转变

On functions of monolingual English dictionary in college English learning

论英英词典在大学英语学习中的作用

You should first look up the words you don’t know in a monolingual dictionary given that you cannot translate a word you don’t understand.

如果你无法翻译一个生词，你就应首先在单语词典中查找这个生词的各种含义。

"Even though the ’machine’ is more broken, they can function at the same level as a monolingual with less disease, " she said.

虽然‘机器’坏得更厉害了，但仍可以像患较少疾病的单语者的大脑一样运转。

Research by Australia universities has shown that a (monolingual ) country often performs worse in international trade and diplomacy.

由澳大利亚各大学联合进行的一项研究显示，单语国家在国际贸易及外交方面的表现通常要逊色些。

Other studies have shown that monolingual babies make the distinction until they are 6 months old.

早前有其它研究显示，单语宝宝要到六个月大后才能区分两种语言。

The report identifies six areas in which the multilingual mind differs in some way to the monolingual mind.

这项报告确定了多语思维和单语思维在某些方面的六个不同点。

These sources include: different monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the Internet.

这些来源包括：各种单语或双语词典、百科全书和互联网。

monolingual legend

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