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China’s enrollment figures in private English as a Second Language (ESL) courses and related test preparation programs continue their longstanding high growth rates. 长期以来，中国报名参加英语学习及相关考前培训的人数持续高速增长。 Despite some prominent observers in the U.S. and U.K. lamenting the decline of these great countries and offering pessimistic views about the future, younger Chinese still correlate good English language ability with career success. This is sensible, practical, and smart. 尽管美英两国的一些主流观察家都在哀叹美英地位的衰落，对未来充满了悲观情绪，但中国的年轻一代依然认为出众的英语能力是关乎事业成功的重要因素。这种看法非常明智和务实。 An article in the Winter 2017 edition of the quarterly “City Journal” offers comparative profiles of the economic clout of the countries they describe as the “Anglosphere” (U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) and those which comprise the “Sinosphere” (Greater China, including Taiwan and the Hong Kong and Macau S.A.R.s). 《City Journal》2017（冬季刊）刊登了一篇文章，对所谓的“英语圈”（美、英、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰、爱尔兰）与“汉语圈”（包括台湾、香港、澳门在内的大中华区）的经济实力进行了一番对比。 The authors, Joel Kotkin and Shashi Parulekar, take the view that despite many challenges, the Anglosphere is alive and well: | 
