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英国人与法国人不同,他们从未试图保护自己的语言,使其免于海外的影响。因此,在世界上所有语言中,英语的词汇量最大。有些语言专家说,英语可能有八十万个词汇。英语有数千的词汇来自其他语言。在这类词汇中,有些通过科技和教育渠道进入英语;有些是英国与其他国家进行贸易或统治他们时借来的;有些则是当时的英语中没有的一些事物名称;有些是在英国被外族征服时成为英语的一部分,如表示月份的单词,就是罗马帝国征服了大不列颠后,罗马文化与风俗习惯渗入大不列颠。社会生活开始“罗马化”,这必然导致其语言在在不列颠传播。从下面每个神话故事,我们就能看到这一点。
The British are different from the French. They have never attempted to protect their language and have spared them overseas influence. Therefore, in all languages of the world, English has the largest vocabulary. Some linguists say that English may have 800,000 words. There are thousands of words in English from other languages. Some of these vocabulary are used to enter English through technical and educational channels; some are borrowed when the United Kingdom traded or ruled with other countries; some were names of things not available in English at that time; some were foreigners in the United Kingdom. When conquering became part of English, such as the words that represent the month, after the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, Roman culture and customs infiltrated into Great Britain. Social life began to “Romanization,” which inevitably led to the spread of its language in Britain. From each of the following myths, we can see this.