摘要
Dear Friends,English,like Chinese,is a worldlanguagespoken by millions of persons on every part ofthis planet.Like Chinese,it is a remarkablelanguage constantly changing to meet new situa-tions and new needs.Both technology and slanghave brought thousands of new words into Eng-lish,and the passage of time has changed themeaning of many old words.For example,to re-fer to a person as"nice"is a compliment to-