- 1威塞克斯（古代英格蘭西南部的盎格魯撒克遜王國；也是哈代小說中的虛構地區名）
The name of an old English kingdom, and now also the name of a part of England in stories. Long ago, before England was one country, the island held several small Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Wessex was the one in the south and southwest. It mattered because it was the one that lasted: its king, Alfred the Great, held out against the Vikings in the 800s, and it was Wessex's royal family that ended up ruling all of England — so in a real sense England grew out of Wessex. That is the history. The second use is literary. The novelist Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) took this dead name off the map and used it for the setting of his novels — a countryside of small farms and small towns, closely based on the real southwest of England, especially Dorset, where he lived. He changed the town names but kept the real shape of the land. He did this so well that *Wessex* came back into ordinary English: hotels, buses, and businesses in that part of England still use the name today, and people there will talk about "Wessex" meaning simply their own region. So the word carries a feeling as well as a fact — old, rural, English, a bit romantic. It is a proper name, always capitalised, and you would meet it in history books, in Hardy's novels, or on a map of the West Country.
組成West + Saxons — Old English *Westseaxan*, "the West Saxons", which named both the kingdom and its people; the same *-sex* piece sits inside Essex (East Saxons) and Sussex (South Saxons).
原始詞典資料2 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。
Wessexname/ˈwɛs.ɪks/
- 1
historicalOne of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, existing between the 6th and 9th centuries, and comprising most of England south of the Thames.
- Grey-stoned and dun-roofed, it stood within hail of the Wessex border, and almost with the tip of one small toe within it, at the northernmost point of the crinkled line along which the leisurely Thames strokes the fields of that ancient kingdom.
- 2
The West Country, a geographic area in the south west of England.
- And I said I’d couch-surfed around Wessex and Wales and had a good time, and the train ride from Devon to Scotland was long and smoky […]
- Crop circles are found in other parts of the globe, but not many. The 55 that have been spotted so far this year in Britain – mostly in Wessex – are more than half the total number observed throughout the world.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。