我们从古法语得到了simple这个单词。
中古法语中rapture 即“绑架” 。
水泥这个词似乎最早是由拉丁语演变为古法语，随后进入中世纪英语。
The word cement seems to have come into Middle English from Old French and ultimately from Latin.
古法语借鉴了这个词，而它最早出现在中世纪英语书面记录的时间是1225年。
Old French picked this up and the word appeared as a Middle English word fol whose earliest written record appears in 1225.
果真，《牛津英语词典》将mess一词的来源追溯至盎格鲁-诺曼语和之前的古法语。
Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.
因为英语来出自于两种主要语言：古法语和Old Anglo- Saxon，它有极为广泛的词库。
Because English came from two main sources - old French, and old Anglo-Saxon, there is a very large vocabulary of words.
她瞥了一眼堆满书籍的写字台，打开一卷《幽默故事》，对着那些古法语愁眉苦脸地说：“你读的东西好深奥呀！”
She glanced at the writing-table heaped with books, opened a volume of the "Contes Drolatiques," made a wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: "What learned things you read!"
她瞥了一眼堆满书籍的写字台，打开一卷《幽默故事》，对着那些古法语愁眉苦脸地说：“你读的东西好深奥呀！”
She glanced at the writing-table heaped with books, opened a volume of the "Contes Drolatiques," madea wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: "Whatlearned things you read!"
仙灵(fairy)这个词来自于古法语fay(现代法语则是fee)，而fay又起源于拉丁词fata，即命运女神。
The word fairy is drawn from fay (Old French fee), which itself comes from the Latin Fata, the goddess of fate.
简而言之，一个关于爱情的论点最好如此表述：相似者相吸，相反者相斥。 从“Familiar”这个词的词源上探求，也能知其一二。它来源于古法语的“familier”，原意是“属于家庭的”以及拉丁语的“familiaris”。
In brief, a theory of love might be best expressed by saying: We are drawn to what is familiar rather than unfamiliar.
简而言之，一个关于爱情的论点最好如此表述：相似者相吸，相反者相斥。 从“Familiar”这个词的词源上探求，也能知其一二。它来源于古法语的“familier”，原意是“属于家庭的”以及拉丁语的“familiaris”。
In brief, a theory of love might be best expressed by saying: We are drawn to what is familiar rather than unfamiliar.
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