给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识_BEC初级作文

给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识

5. For more than a century, the English aristocracy couldn’t speak English.

有一个世纪多的时间，英国贵族不会说英语。

William the Conqueror tried to learn English at the age of 43 but gave up. Within 20 years of the Normans taking power in England, almost all of the local religious institutions were French-speaking. There is little to suggest that aristocrats themselves spoke English. It isn’t until the end of the 12th Century that we have evidence of the children of the English aristocracy with English as a first language.

英国国王威廉一世曾在43岁时尝试学习英语，但半途而废。诺曼人控制英国的20年里，大部分的地方宗教机构都说法语。鲜有证据显示英国的贵族自己会说英语。证据显示，直到12世纪末，才有英语贵族子女以英语为第一语言。

6.That is why Latin words sound more prestigious than Germanic ones.

这就是为什么拉丁词汇比日耳曼词汇听上去更高大上。

Think about the difference between a house (Germanic) and a mansion (French), or between starting something and commencing, between calling something kingly or regal. English has a huge number of close synonyms, where the major difference is the level of formality or prestige. The prestigious form is almost always the Latin one.

想想看"house"("房子"，日耳曼词汇）与"mansion"("宅邸"，法语词汇）的差异，及"starting(开始)"与"commencing(肇始)"的不同、“kingly(皇家气质)"与"regal(君威)"的区别。英语中有大量意思贴近的同义词，其主要差异在于其正式与高级程度。高级形式几乎都是拉丁词汇。

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