ostler

基本解释

Yet Ostler takes the view that by around 2050 no global lingua franca will be needed.
但奥斯特勒的观点是：到2050年前后，世界将不再需要全球性的通用语言。
Mr Ostler is surely right about the nationalist limits to the spread of English as a mother-tongue.
Ostler先生确信民族主义者限制英语作为母语的传播是做得对的。
Improvements in translation technology will not change this by making it less important to learn second languages at all, despite claims such as Nicholas Ostler’s in The Last Lingua Franca.
翻译技术的改善使得学习第二语言不再那么重要，但这并不会导致任何改变，尽管存在如Nicholas Ostler在《最后的通用语言》（The Last Lingua Franca）中所声称的。

Nicholas Ostler, a scholar who heads the Foundation for Endangered Languages, a non-profit group based in Britain, says multilingual children do better academically than monolingual ones.
ECONOMIST: Endangered languages

in the past, someone who took care of people's horses when they stopped at an inn (= a place where you can stay for a night while on a journey)