language
英 ['l??gw?d?]
美['l??ɡw?d?]
- n. 語言；語言文字；表達能力
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詞態變化
復數:?languages;
中文詞源
language 語言
來自拉丁語lingua,舌頭，語言，詞源同tongue,linguist.
英文詞源
- language
- language: [13] Like English tongue, Latin lingua ‘tongue’ was used figuratively for ‘language’; from it English gets linguist [16] and linguistic [19]. In the Vulgar Latin spoken by the inhabitants of Gaul, the derivative *linguāticum emerged, and this became in due course Old French langage, source of English language. (The u in the English word, which goes back to the end of the 13th century, is due to association with French langue ‘tongue’.)
=> linguistic - language (n.)
- late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language" (see lingual). The form with -u- developed in Anglo-French. Meaning "a language" is from c. 1300, also used in Middle English of dialects:
Mercii, tat beet men of myddel Engelond[,] vnderstondet bettre te side langages, norterne and souterne, tan norterne and souterne vnderstondet eiter oter. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]
Language barrier attested from 1933.
In otir inglis was it drawin, And turnid ic haue it til ur awin Language of the nortin lede, Tat can na notir inglis rede. ["Cursor Mundi," early 14c.]
雙語例句
- 1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.
- 烏克蘭人所說的那種斯拉夫語系的語言類似于俄語。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.
- 達爾文的語言無論對專家還是非專業人士而言都明白易懂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.
- 他對語言的誤解是引起其他問題的主要原因。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.
- 我們被禁止使用母語，違者將被關進監獄。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. All cheques should be made out to "EF International Language Schools"
- 所有支票的收款人都應是“英孚國際語言學校”。
來自柯林斯例句