在英语里，这个单词出现于远在1100多年前阿尔弗雷德大帝的作品中。
In English the word shows up well over 1100 years ago in the works attributed to King Alfred the Great.
《牛津英语词典》对这个词的引用出自公元900年的《阿尔弗雷德大帝律法》。
The Oxford English Dictionary cites it around the year 900 in the Laws of King Alfred.
阿尔弗雷德大帝(849- 899，英格兰国王)之后100多年左右，有一个英格兰国王名叫克努特。
A hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great (king of England, 849-899), there was a king of Englandnamed Canute.
就此我们可以知道，海象直到1655年才被称为walrus，但这种动物早已被人熟知，它在893年阿尔弗雷德大帝的作品中就以其他名字出现过。
There we learn that a walrus was called a walrus by 1655 but that as an animal it had been known long before and appeared with other names in the writings of Alfred the Great back around 893.
就此我们可以知道，海象直到1655年才被称为walrus，但这种动物早已被人熟知，它在893年阿尔弗雷德大帝的作品中就以其他名字出现过。
There we learn that a walrus was called a walrus by 1655 but that as an animal it had been known long before and appeared with other names in the writings of Alfred the Great back around 893.
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