盎格鲁-撒克逊语又称为古英语(Old English或Anglo-Saxon)是指从450年到1150年间的英语。古英语和现代英语无论在读音、拼写、词汇和语法上都很不一样。古英语的语法和德语比较相近,形态变化很复杂。
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.
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