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    A Saxon was a person from a Germanic people of northern Europe who, from the fifth century, crossed the sea and settled in what we now call England, together with the Angles and the . Their speech is one deep root of English.

    A SaxonSaxon（撒克遜人） was a person from a Germanic people of northern Europe是北歐一個日耳曼民族裡的人 who, from the fifth century從西元五世紀開始 crossed the sea and settled in what we now call England渡海到我們現在稱為英格蘭的地方定居 together with the Angles and the Jutes跟盎格魯人（Angles）和朱特人（Jutes）一起 Their speech他們的語言 is one deep root of English是英文很深的一個根源

    The name is very old. It comes through Old English and Old French and Latin from a West Germanic word for a rock or a knife — the seax, a kind of short sword — and that sits on an older root meaning “to cut.” You can still see the people in English place-names: Essex is the East Saxons, Sussex the South, the West.

    The name這個名字 is very old非常古老 It comes它是 through Old English and Old French and Latin經過古英文、古法文和拉丁文 from a West Germanic word for a rock or a knife源自一個西日耳曼語裡指石頭或刀子的字 the seax, a kind of short swordthe seax，一種短劍 and that sits on an older root meaning "to cut."而那又源自更早一個意思是「切」的字根 You can still see the people in English place-names你還是可以在英文地名裡看到這些人的痕跡 Essex is the East SaxonsEssex是East Saxons（東撒克遜） Sussex the SouthSussex是南邊的 Wessex the WestWessex是西邊的

    In a history class, Saxon is this people; Anglo-Saxon is the later English world they helped make.

    In a history class在歷史課裡 SaxonSaxon is this people指的是這個民族 Anglo-Saxon而Anglo-Saxon is the later English world they helped make指的是他們後來一起造就的英格蘭世界

    Though actually the word is also used for people of Saxony in Germany, which is a cousin story, not the same snapshot. And in some places Anglo-Saxon is stretched to mean “white English-speaking culture”; that is , not the fifth-century meaning, and it can carry a sharp edge.

    Though actually不過其實 the word這個字 is also used for people of Saxony in Germany也用來指德國Saxony（薩克森）地區的人 which is a cousin story這是一個表親的故事 not the same snapshot不是同一個時空 And in some places而在某些地方 Anglo-SaxonAnglo-Saxon is stretched to mean "white English-speaking culture"被延伸拿來指「白人英語文化」 that is politics這是政治性的用法 not the fifth-century meaning不是五世紀的原意 and it can carry a sharp edge而且可能帶著尖銳的意味

    For this word, keep the old in mind.

    For this word對這個字來說 keep the old settlers in mind記住的是那些古代的移居者

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成From Old English and Old French, and from Latin Saxō, back to a Germanic word for a rock or knife (the seax), from an older root meaning “to cut.”

同家族的字

  • Anglo-Saxonthe Angles plus the Saxons; later English culture built on them
  • EssexEast Saxons
  • SussexSouth Saxons
  • WessexWest Saxons
  • Saxonythe German region whose name is the same people-word
  • saxophonenamed for Adolphe Sax; Sax is a form of a name meaning “Saxon”

原始詞典資料17 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。

Saxonnoun/ˈsæksən/

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    A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.

    • Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
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    A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.

    • [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
    • The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
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    An English/British person.

    • Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
  • 4

    datedraremediaprintingpublishingA size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.

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    A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.

Saxonname/ˈsæksən/

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    The language of the ancient Saxons.

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    Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.

    • Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
    • But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin.
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    A surname.

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    A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.

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    A place name:

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    A place name:

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    A place name:

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    A place name:

Saxonadj/ˈsæksən/

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    Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.

    • But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
    • Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking.
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    Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.

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    Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.

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    Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.

    • He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。