An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world's great languages has rarely been examined. 'Empires of the Word' is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations -- in education, culture and diplomacy -- devised by speakers in the Middle East; the uncanny resilience of Chinese throughout twenty centuries of invasions; the progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the struggle that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English. Besides these epic achievements, language failures are equally fascinating: why did Germany get left behind? Why did Egyptian, which had survived foreign takeovers for three millennia, succumb to Mohammed's Arabic? Why is Dutch unknown in modern Indonesia, given that the Netherlands had ruled the East Indies for as long as the British ruled India? As this book engagingly reveals, the language history of the world shows eloquently the real characters of peoples; it also shows that the language of the future will, like the languages of the past, be full of surprises.
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这种书如果读不了原文那翻译一定要非常有功力才行，很可惜本书翻译确实很差，很简单的例子，回鹘（维吾尔）译者都译不出来，还要放个英文在上面，是在太不堪了。
評分这种书如果读不了原文那翻译一定要非常有功力才行，很可惜本书翻译确实很差，很简单的例子，回鹘（维吾尔）译者都译不出来，还要放个英文在上面，是在太不堪了。
評分这种书如果读不了原文那翻译一定要非常有功力才行，很可惜本书翻译确实很差，很简单的例子，回鹘（维吾尔）译者都译不出来，还要放个英文在上面，是在太不堪了。
評分这种书如果读不了原文那翻译一定要非常有功力才行，很可惜本书翻译确实很差，很简单的例子，回鹘（维吾尔）译者都译不出来，还要放个英文在上面，是在太不堪了。
評分怎么说呢，这本书我给它定性为“完全没有语言学常识和文化底蕴、只懂得背单词的蹩脚翻译糟蹋好书的典型”。还四个人翻译，两个人校译呢，就这水准！自编译名五花八门，前后不统一；严重缺乏文化底蕴，翻译错误不断搞笑不停；译文生搬硬套，懒于查询审阅。这样的“译著”，不看...
用戶評價
很清晰 想瞭解的基本都講到瞭
评分很清晰 想瞭解的基本都講到瞭
评分能看原版還是原版，原作的筆觸和力度是翻譯不齣來的。我真的拿來當一韆零一夜看瞭，非常精彩有趣。
评分能看原版還是原版，原作的筆觸和力度是翻譯不齣來的。我真的拿來當一韆零一夜看瞭，非常精彩有趣。
评分很清晰 想瞭解的基本都講到瞭
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