1. A good old English breakfast is that you have a load of cereal and then bacon, eggs, tomatoes.
一顿好的传统英式早餐包括一条燕麦面包、培根、鸡蛋、西红柿。

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2. Whether in Old English or Modern English, complementizer has to be filled in interrogatives.
无论在古英语还是现代英语中,疑问句中要填充补语成分。

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3. So that makes it Old English.
于是就有了古英语。

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4. This date would make it Old English.
这一日期使得Stammer成为古代英语。

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5. This was from Old English and Germanic roots.
“道路”、“路径”的词根来自古英语和日耳曼语。

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6. In the oldest forms of Old English there was no word woman.
在古英语最早期的词汇里,压根就没有woman这个单词。

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7. It's worth touching on that Old English word for squirrel aquerne.
很值得稍微谈谈这个松鼠的古英语词aquerne。

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8. Skilled medical personnel before that were known as leeches in Old English.
在那之前,人们把有娴熟医学技能的人都称为leeches,一个地道的古英语单词。

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9. This proverb is based on an old English law dating back to the 17th century.
这条谚语是17世纪时的一条古老的英国法律为基础而衍化出来的。

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10. On August 13, 1415, the 27-year-old English king Henry V led his army into France.
1415年8月13日,27岁的英国国王亨利5世率军攻入法国。

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11. 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。

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12. In Old English there was even a word for servant that had etymological roots meaning "bread eater."
在古英语中,甚至还专门有一个对应于仆人的单词,它的词根就有“食面包者”(bread eater)的意思。

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13. Their suspicion is that goal had come from an Old English word that had originally meant “barrier.”
词典的推测是,goal来自于一个意为障碍(barrier)的古英语词。

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14. The sound b occurs after m in the Old English form and in all its Germanic and more distant cognates.
声音b在m后发声,在古英语的形式里是这样,在其它所有日耳曼和更遥远的同源词里也是一样。

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15. 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。

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16. In old English these were called eyethurls and since thurl is an old word for hole, this means eye holes.
在古英语里,它叫eyethurl,thurl是hole(洞)的古老的写法,整个词的意思是窥视孔。

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17. The word dumb since Old english-for more than 1000 years-was restricted to the meaning of "unable to talk."
dumb这个词从古英语开始——沿用了1000多年——都只是“不能说话”的意思。

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18. An Old English sheepdog, one of the one hundred and seventy-three breeds in competition at the 2010 show.
一只英国牧羊犬。本次2010犬展共有173种狗狗参加,英国牧羊犬是其中之一。

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19. Butter is an unusual word that appears to have come into English during the days of Old English but from Latin.
在古英语时代,从拉丁语进入英语的butter是个不寻常的单词。

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20. It definitely didn’t come to English through French since the Old English citations predate the Norman Conquest.
但是可以肯定的是它绝非来源于法语,因为在古英语尚在是有时,诺曼征服的时代还未到来呢。

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21. At that time in Old English it was called not walrus but horschwael which we today might pronounce "horse whale."
在古英语的那个时代它不被称为海象,而是叫“horschwael”,今天我们也许应该发音为“豪斯维尔(horsewhale的音译)。”

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

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23. The match that bursts into flame isn’t Old English but another word entirely that came over with the French in 1066.
可以燃烧的match并非古英语,而完完全全是另一个词,于1066年(译注:1066年是诺曼征服英格兰的年份)同法国人一并到达英国。

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24. The match that bursts into flame isn’t Old English but another word entirely that came over with the French in 1066.
可以燃烧的match并非古英语,而完完全全是另一个词,于1066年(译注:1066年是诺曼征服英格兰的年份)同法国人一并到达英国。

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