language
英 ['læŋgwɪdʒ]
美 ['læŋɡwɪdʒ]
CET4 TEM4 考 研 CET6
language 语言来自拉丁语lingua,舌头，语言，词源同tongue,linguist.
- 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, þat beeþ men of myddel Engelond[,] vnderstondeþ bettre þe side langages, norþerne and souþerne, þan norþerne and souþerne vnderstondeþ eiþer oþer. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]
In oþir inglis was it drawin, And turnid ic haue it til ur awin Language of the norþin lede, Þat can na noþir inglis rede. ["Cursor Mundi," early 14c.]
Language barrier attested from 1933.
- 1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.
- 乌克兰人所说的那种斯拉夫语系的语言类似于俄语。
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- 2. The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.
- 达尔文的语言无论对专家还是非专业人士而言都明白易懂。
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- 3. His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.
- 他对语言的误解是引起其他问题的主要原因。
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- 4. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.
- 我们被禁止使用母语，违者将被关进监狱。
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- 5. All cheques should be made out to "EF International Language Schools"
- 所有支票的收款人都应是“英孚国际语言学校”。
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