这是一个古英语词，意思是“切”，你可以通过联想一个更为常见的词carve来记住它。

It's an Old English word meaning "to cut" and you can remember it by associating it with another word that is much more common; carve.

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正如我们现在所知，古腾堡革命花了很长时间；它的影响仍处于争议中。

The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated.

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这个英语词汇源于日耳曼语系，因为它出现在古英语的早期，可追溯到公元700年。

Our English word comes from Germanic stock because it appears in Old English pretty early, back before the year 700.

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It's by no means clear that The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner will end with "Love all things, great and small things."

大家不可能清楚的预见到《古航海家之歌》,会以“爱所有事物，不管它伟大或渺小“结尾“

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If you're talking about the year 750 or something like that it's-- I think it's in the hands, well, it is in the hands of the Assyrians and it will ultimately fall into the hands of the Persians.

如果是说大约公元前750年左右,我想它先是,落入古亚述人之手,最后又被波斯所占领

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