Middle English

Middle English什么意思,Middle English翻译

基本解释

na.: 中世纪英语
网络: 中古英语；语源；中古英文

权威解释

• 中古英语（约公元 1150 至 1500 年间的英语）:

  an old form of English that was used between about AD 1150 and AD 1500

英汉解释

• 中世纪英语

例句

• The word cement seems to have come into Middle English from Old French and ultimately from Latin.

  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。

• Old French picked this up and the word appeared as a Middle English word fol whose earliest written record appears in 1225.

  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。

• Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer"s great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

  在这里沃伦scheer读取开始杰弗里乔叟的伟大的诗，“坎特伯雷故事”，因为这是在中东的书面英语。

• But there was a Middle English stut that came before with the same meaning, and that can be traced to Germanic roots.

  不过，在此之前，有个中世纪英语单词stut具有同样的含义，而且可以追溯到日耳曼语根源。

• A similar process took place in northern Middle English, as evidenced by the use of qu-, quh-, and cu- for hw- in multiple manuscripts.

  类似的过程也发生在北部的中古英语中，从大量的手稿里都使用qu-，quh-和cu-来取代hw-，就可以证明。

• The Middle English Period stretches roughly to the early years of the 15th century.

  中古英语期大约持续到十五世纪初。

• Both French and English belong to the Indo-European Family. Since the Middle English period French has had strong influence on English.

  法语和英语同属于印欧语系，中古英语以来法语对英语就有着极其深刻的影响。

• In the 14th century English became dominant in Britain again, but with many French words added. This language is called Middle English.

  在14世纪英语重新成为英国主流语言，但也增加了许多法语单词，这就是中世纪英语。

• Apparently, it was this devoiced, "whispered" w for which Middle English scribes, under French influence, invented the spelling wh-.

  显然，正是由于这个清音化，“whispered”中的w在中古英语的文书中，受到法语的影响，发明了拼写wh-。

• The word Christmas is derived from Middle English Christemasse. It is a contraction meaning "Christ"s mass" .

  Christmas一词来源于中世纪英语Christemasse，大概的意思是耶稣的弥撒。