寻找失落的语言：学者“救回”30个英语单词_BEC初级作文

寻找失落的语言：学者“救回”30个英语单词

Ruff：虚张声势、夸口、盛气凌人。To ruff it out：吹嘘某事

Tremblable: Causing dread or horror; dreadful

Tremblable: 令人恐惧的；可怕的

Awhape: To amaze, stupefy with fear, confound utterly

Awhape: 使惊呆，使惊慌失措

Mr Watt wants to bring these words back into modern conversations.

瓦特想将这些词重新带回现代会话中。

"We've identified lost words that are both interesting and thought-provoking, in the hope of helping people re-engage with language of old," he said.

他说：“我们认定了一些又有趣又发人深思的失落的词语，希望帮助人们重新拾起旧时代的语言。”

"Snout-fair", for example, means "having a fair countenance; fair-faced, comely, handsome", while "sillytonian" refers to "a silly or gullible person, esp one considered as belonging to a notional sect of such people".

比如，Snout-fair意思是“面容姣好、漂亮、清秀、英俊”，而sillytonian指的是“易受骗的傻瓜，尤其是被认为属于某一派别的人”。

"Dowsabel" is "applied generically to a sweetheart, 'lady-love'".

Dowsabel是对情人的称呼，相当于lady-love（情妇）。

Margot Leadbetter, the snobby neighbour from 1970s BBC sitcom, The Good Life, could be seen as an arch example of a "percher" - someone "who aspires to a higher rank or status; an ambitious or self-assertive person".