喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/early settler of England盎格魯撒克遜人

    A member of the people who came across the sea from northern Europe and settled in England in about the fifth and sixth centuries, and who then lived there and ruled most of it for hundreds of years.

    Anglo-Saxon 指古代住在英格蘭的一群人。他們大約一千五百年前從歐洲北部渡海過來。之後英格蘭大部分地方由他們統治。這個字是兩個族名合起來的：Angles 加 Saxons。所以開頭一定大寫，中間有連字號。講一個人用 an Anglo-Saxon。講整群人通常用 the Anglo-Saxons。讀英國早期歷史、看博物館說明時最常遇到它。

    示範例句 · Example

    Our history teacher showed us a map of where the Anglo-Saxons settled.

    中文翻譯我們的歷史老師給我們看了一張盎格魯撒克遜人定居地方的地圖。

    Anglo-Saxon names a group of people in early English history. The name puts two older group names together: the Angles and the Saxons. It is written with a capital A and a capital S, because it is the name of a people. One person is an Anglo-Saxon. The whole people is usually the Anglo-Saxons. You meet the word most often in history lessons, in museums, and in writing about old English kings, villages and gold.

    常見搭配

    • the Anglo-Saxons

      盎格魯撒克遜人（整群）

      the whole people, spoken of as a group

      The Anglo-Saxons built small farming villages.

    • the coming of the Anglo-Saxons

      盎格魯撒克遜人的到來

      the time when they arrived in England

      The book begins with the coming of the Anglo-Saxons.

  2. 2n/ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/Old English古英語

    The language the Anglo-Saxons spoke and wrote in England before about 1100; another name for Old English, which looks and sounds very different from the English of today.

    這個用法指的是一種語言，不是人。它是盎格魯撒克遜人講的英文，大約一千一百年以前的英文。今天的人看它幾乎完全看不懂。現在學術上比較常說 Old English，用 Anglo-Saxon 指語言的說法變少了。有些人還會用得更窄：專指英文裡本來就有的老字，不算後來從古北歐語或法文借來的字。因為是語言名，前面不加 a，也沒有複數。

    This is a name for a language, so it takes no a and no plural. Today most teachers and books say Old English, and Anglo-Saxon for the language has become rarer. Some writers use Anglo-Saxon in a narrower way as well, for the older part of English that came in with these people, as against the words English later took from Old Norse or from French.

    常見搭配

    • come from Anglo-Saxon

      源自古英語

      to have started in the Old English language

      Many short everyday words come from Anglo-Saxon.

    • read Anglo-Saxon

      讀得懂古英語

      to be able to read Old English texts

      Only a few people in the room could read Anglo-Saxon.

    意思相近

    Old English

    用法接近

    Middle EnglishLatinOld Norse

  3. 3n/ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/white person of English descent英裔白人

    A white person whose family first came from England; used mainly in the United States when people talk about where families came from, and sometimes used loosely of any light-skinned person who looks northern European.

    這個用法把古代族名放到現代的人身上。它講的是祖先來自英國的白人。這是美國比較常見的說法，重點在家族來源，不是出生地。有些人用得更鬆，只要膚色白、看起來像北歐後裔就這樣叫。因為是在用血統和膚色把人分類，語氣可能很中性，也可能帶有距離感。自己要用的時候要小心，讀到的時候先看上下文。

    This use takes the old name for a people and puts it on someone alive today. It is about family line, not about where a person was born. Because it sorts people by colour and ancestry, it can feel cold or dividing, and some speakers use it that way on purpose. The sources mark it as an American use, and among Mexican-American speakers it is sometimes stretched to cover any fair-haired, light-skinned person. Read the whole sentence to see how the speaker means it.

    常見搭配

    • of Anglo-Saxon descent

      英裔的

      with a family line going back to England

      Both of her grandparents were of Anglo-Saxon descent.

    • white Anglo-Saxon

      英裔白人的

      used together when talking about race and family origin

      The board was all white Anglo-Saxon men.

    用法接近

    AngloWASPCaucasian

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Anglo-Saxonname/ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/

  • 1

    archaicSynonym of Old English (language).

  • 2

    archaicSynonym of Old English (language).

  • 3

    informalProfanity, especially words derived from Old English.

    • Sometimes these chairmen are authoritarians, who wield the budget-book as a weapon - the junior staff members have some Anglo-Saxon words for them
    • I haven't eaten in two days. What's left to puke? You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.

Anglo-Saxonnoun/ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/

  • 1

    A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.

  • 2

    A person of English ethnic descent.

  • 3

    A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.

Anglo-Saxonadj/ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/

  • 1

    Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.

  • 2

    Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.

    • [...] Ethnography thus aims at record- ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth- nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.
  • 3

    governmentpoliticsFavouring a liberal free-market economy.

  • 4

    Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).

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