英语词汇language barrier的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	language barrier
词源	language barrier. “He [his language] erects a barrier between himself and his reader,” a literary critic wrote in the late 18th century. But Oscar Wilde’s quip about British and American En- glish is the earliest mention I can find of the common phrase above. “We and the Americans have much in common,” he ob- served, “but there is always the language barrier.”
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