Old English

Old English什么意思,Old English翻译

基本解释

na.: 古代英语；〈英〉哥特体(铅字)
网络: 古英语；古英文；古英语时期

权威解释

• 古英语（约公元 1150 年前的英语，与现代英语差异很大）:

  the English language before about 1150, which is very different from modern English

英汉解释

• 古代英语;【英】哥特体(铅字)

例句

• It was one of those words that came with church-Latin to England before the arrival of French; that makes it Old English.

  在法语侵入英语之前，这个词随着许多拉丁宗教词汇进入英格兰；在此过程中，它成了一个古英语词汇。

• the old English lady decided to leave her property to her pet dog.

  那个英国老太太决定由她心爱的宠物狗来继承财产。

• The word was already being used in Old English and shows up in the written record about the year 1000.

  这个词在古英语中已经存在，最早的文字记录在公元1000年左右。

• Old English is extremely difficult to understand. Only a few experts can read this earliest form of English.

  古英语极难理解。仅有少数几个专家能够读懂这种早期形式的英语。

• Istanbul was a bit of a freaky game. Do you think this one is going to revert back to the dour old English-Italian one-goal-in-it affair?

  伊斯坦布尔决赛有点偏离常规。你认为这一次将恢复到保守的英格兰-大利式一球决胜？

• It has changed so much that there are almost no words said the same way today as in Old English.

  它（词汇）变化如此之大，当今所用的词汇几乎没有一个是和古代英语表达一样的。

• her, the old English lady decided to leave her property to her pet dog.

  由于没有子女来继承她的财产，那个英国老太太决定由她心爱。

• The church was one of those fine old English structures worth travelling to see.

  那座教堂是那些古老壮观的英国建筑物之一，值得去参观。

• When the word lord came into Old English more than a thousand years ago it held the meaning of someone who manages servants.

  当单词lord在一千多年以前进入古英语的时候，它有“仆人管理者”的意思。

• It was in the Old English translation of this Latin biography that we first get the word bitter.

  后来，这部原文为拉丁语的传记有了古英语译本——从中，我们头一次碰到了单词bitter。