今天在Quora 上看到了一篇文章叫“Spanish vs Mandarin Chinese? Which is the true language of the future?” 突然發(fā)現挺有意思的，也趕著中秋假期結束時候看點文章做做翻譯，省得假期結束了感嘆自己虛度了三天光陰，哈哈~
以下是我四級飄過者的水平，還請大家吐槽。
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問題：Spanish?VS Mandarin Chinese? Which is the true language of the future?
西班牙語 vs 普通話，哪一種會是將來真正的語言？
Other than English, which language will become more important? Spanish or Chinese?
除了英語，哪一種語言會更重要，西班牙與還是中文？
In my opinion, it is Spanish by far and won't even be close due to the difficulty of Mandarin and widespread of Spanish throughout the world, but still want to hear your opinions.
我個人認為，由于普通話的難度和西班牙語在世界的廣泛使用，目前為止西班牙是很難被取代的，但是我還是想聽聽你們的看法
回答來自 Anonymous
Actually Mandarin should be by now the world’s most important language, it has the most speakers, its position is boosted by an upcoming economic superpower, but Mandarin is still a less commonly taught language. Far more people learn Spanish, French, or even Russian and Japanese than Mandarin. Check out the StackOverflow sites for Japanese and Chinese. The Japanese site is thriving, the Chinese is still in beta after 5 years since launch.
事實上普通話在當今世界上應該是很重要的語言，它有著很多的使用者，它的地位被即將到來的超級經濟大國所提升。但是普通話仍然是不常用的授課語言。更多的人學習西班牙語，法語甚至俄羅斯語和日語而不是普通話。點擊中文和日語的StackOverflow 網站。日語網站正是繁榮階段，中文在推出五年后還仍是測試階段。
It looks like, Mandarin is a difficult to learn language and the time investment it requires to learn Mandarin at business fluency level is way more than you need to get to the same level in Spanish. If Chinese hasn’t been able to gain much traction, it looks like it won’t make it in the near future either.
正如，普通話是很難學習的一種語言。并且普通話要達到商務上流利說的水平所投入的時間比你西班牙達到同樣等級所用的時間更多。如果中文沒有更多的牽引,普通話在將來也不會起作用。
Chinese has a complex and tedious writing system and the Chinese know that themselves, so the main language for communicating with Chinese still is and will be English.
中文有著復雜且乏味的書寫系統(tǒng)同時只有中國人自己知道，因此和中國人的主要語言溝通仍然是英語。
Chinese speakers are concentrated in 2 or 3 countries, Spanish is the official language of more than 20. Moreover, the fertility rate of China is low, lower than that of most countries in Latin America. China is currently below the replacement level 2.1 children / mother.
說中文的主要集中在兩三個國家，把西班牙語作為官方語言的超過20個國家。同時，中國的出生率低，比大多數拉丁美洲的國家低。中國目前是2.1個孩子/母親，低于更替水平。
Which means that the number of Spanish speakers in the future is on the rise, while the number of Chinese speakers is going to decrease or at best stabilize.
這意味著說西班牙語的人將來會更多，同時說中文的人數將減少，至多保持穩(wěn)定。
That does not off course mean, that you should not learn Mandarin Chinese. For individual career opportunities both are excellent.
這并不意味你不應該學普通話。就個人的事業(yè)機會而言，兩者都學是有好處的 。
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本來這個問題下面有三個人的回答，我只翻譯了第一個人的看法，如果有時間我會繼續(xù)補充后面兩個人的回答，今天到此結束~
如果有什么翻譯不好的，歡迎交流~
