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TheGloriousMessinessOfEnglishHistoricaldevelopmentofEnglishEnglishhistoryaboutthedevelopmentisdividedintofourperiods.英语的发展历史大约分为四个时期TheoriginofEnglishWhenJuliusCaesarinvadedBritainin55B.C.,Englishdidnotexist.TheCelts,whoinhabitedtheland,spokelanguagesthatsurvivetodaymainlyasWelsh.凯撒在公元前55年入侵不列颠时,英语尚不存在。当时不列颠的居民凯尔特人使用的语言流传下来主要成了威尔士语。NewwordscamewiththeGermanictribes—theAngles,theSaxons,etc.—thatslippedacrossthenewNorthSeatosettleinBritaininthe5thcentury.TogethertheyformedwhatwecallAnglo-Saxonsociety.新的词汇随日耳曼部落—盎格鲁、萨克逊等部落--而来,他们在5世纪的时候越过北海在不列颠定居。他们共同形成了我们称之为盎格鲁-萨克逊的社会。Theyhavehandeddownmanyfarmingvocabulary,includingsheep,ox,earth,wood,fieldandwork.他们留下了许多农耕词汇,包括sheep、ox、earth和wood。DevelopmentofcoreEnglishvocabularyHavebeenusedbyChristiansofGreece,andLatinhavealsoenrichedEnglishvocabulary,suchasangel,and.基督教曾使用的希腊语和拉丁语也丰富了英语词汇。比如“angel”(天使)、“angel”(门徒)和“angel”(殉难者)。TheVikingsfromScandinaviaalsobroughttoEnglishmanywordsthatbeginwithsk,likeskirtandsky.EachsuchadditiongaveEnglishmorerichness,morevariety.北欧海盗也给英语带来了许多以sk开头的词汇,如sky和skirt.这都使得英语更加丰富和多样化。DuringtheNormanconquestUnitedKingdomin1066,Englishgraduallydevelopedintoanenrichedlanguage—MiddleEnglish—withabout10,000”borrowed”Frenchwords.在1066年诺曼人征服英国后,英语逐渐成为大大丰富了的拥有10000多个“借来”法语词汇的语言—中古英语。Around1476WilliamCaxtonsetupaprintingpressinEnglandandstartedacommunicationsrevolution.PrintingbroughtintoEnglishthewealthofnewthinkingthatsprangfromtheEuropeanRenaissance.TranslationsofGreekandRomanclassicswerepouredontotheprintedpage,andwiththemthousandsofLatinwordslikecapsuleandhabitual,andGreekwordsLatinandthermometer.TodaywestillborrowfromLatinandGreektonamenewinventions,likevideo,televisionandcyberspace.大约在1476年,威廉.卡克斯顿在英国制造了一台应刷机,由此掀开了一场信息传播技术的革命。印刷术把欧洲文艺复兴运动中涌现的大量思想传入英国。希腊罗马经典著作的译文纷纷印成书册,成千上万的拉丁词,如capsule(航天舱)和habitual(惯常的),希腊词,如catastrophe(大灾难)和thermometer(温度计)等也随之涌入。今天我们任然借用拉丁、希腊语命名新的发明创造,如video、television和cyberspace.(虚拟空间)等。LaterUnitedStatesindependencealsomakesEnglishthefurtherdevelopment.后来美国的独立也使得英语进一步发展Englishhasgradua