现代英语起源于盎格鲁-撒克逊语的多种方言之一。
Modern English derives primarily from one of the dialects of Anglo-Saxon.
大概1500年前,几个不同的民族离开欧洲大陆,把家安到了英吉利海峡对面的岛上,顺便带去了他们的盎格鲁-撒克逊语。那是英语的源头。
It arrived with the peoples who moved house across the English Channel around 1500 years ago bringing their Anglo-Saxon language that eventually became the English language.
Bitch一词与日耳曼语有着很深的渊源。盎格鲁-撒克逊的几支部落在1500多年前入侵英伦列岛,这些日耳曼入侵者们大概也将这个单词引入了正处于雏形阶段的古英语。
Bitch is a word with solidly Germanic origins that would have carried it into the earliest forms of Old English that arrived more than 1500 years ago in Britain with the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
一些惯用地名,特别是河流的名字都具有非常古老的历史,可以追溯到我们现在的所说盎格鲁撒克逊语(古英语)之前。
Place names, especially for rivers, can be amazingly old, predating the Anglo-Saxon we speak.
盎格鲁撒克逊语是现代英语的先驱。
中世纪英语既不是法语,也不是盎格鲁•撒克逊语,它是两种语言结合后形成的一个全然不同的语言。
Middle English was neither French nor Anglo-Saxon; it was a completely different language combined of both.
中世纪英语既不是法语,也不是盎格鲁•撒克逊语,它是两种语言结合后形成的一个全然不同的语言。
Middle English was neither French nor Anglo-Saxon; it was a completely different language combined of both.
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