English

• adj. 英國人的；英國的；英文的
• n. 英語；英國人；英文；英格蘭人
• vt. 把…譯成英語

來自Angles, 詞源同angle. 來自在公元5世紀入侵英國的日耳曼盎格魯人，因其生活在德國西北部一角狀土地而得名。

English

English: [OE] The people and language of England take their name from the Angles, a West Germanic people who settled in Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. They came originally from the Angul district of Schleswig, an area of the Jutland peninsula to the south of modern Denmark. This had a shape vaguely reminiscent of a fishhook, and so its inhabitants used their word for ‘fishhook’ (a relative of modern English angler and angling) to name it.

From earliest times the adjective English seems to have been used for all the Germanic peoples who came to Britain, including the Saxons and Jutes, as well as the Angles (at the beginning of the 8th century Bede referred to them collectively as gens anglorum ‘race of Angles’). The earliest record of its use with reference to the English language is by Alfred the Great.
=> angler, angling

English (n.1)

"the people of England; the speech of England," noun use of Old English adjective Englisc (contrasted to Denisc, Frencisce, etc.), "of or pertaining to the Angles," from Engle (plural) "the Angles," the name of one of the Germanic groups that overran the island 5c., supposedly so-called because Angul, the land they inhabited on the Jutland coast, was shaped like a fish hook (see angle (n.)). Reinforced by Anglo-French engleis. Cognates: Dutch Engelsch, German Englisch, Danish Engelsk, French Anglais (Old French Engelsche), Spanish Inglés, Italian Inglese.

Englisc was used from earliest times without distinction for all the Germanic invaders -- Angles, Saxon, Jutes (Bede's gens Anglorum) -- and applied to their group of related languages by Alfred the Great. "The name English for the language is thus older than the name England for the country" [OED]. After 1066, of the native population of England (as distinguished from Normans and French occupiers), a distinction which lasted about a generation. But as late as Robert of Gloucester's "Chronicle" (c. 1300) it also was sometimes distinguished from "Saxon" ("Þe englisse in þe norþ half, þe saxons bi souþe").

"... when Scots & others are likely to be within earshot, Britain & British should be inserted as tokens, but no more, of what is really meant" [Fowler]

In pronunciation, "En-" has become "In-," perhaps through the frequency of -ing- words and the relative rarity of -e- before -ng- in the modern language, but the older spelling has remained. Meaning "English language or literature as a subject at school" is from 1889. Old English meaning the Anglo-Saxon language before the Conquest is attested from c. 1200 in an account of the native (as opposed to Latin) month names.

English (n.2)

"spin imparted to a ball" (as in billiards), 1860, from French anglé "angled" (see angle (n.)), which is similar to Anglais "English."

English (adj.)

Old English, "belonging to the English people;" late 13c., "belonging to England," from English (n.1). The adverb Englishly (mid-15c.) is rare.

english (v.)

"to translate into English," late 14c., from English (n.1) in the language sense. Related: Englished; englishing.

1. English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.

英語傷我千百遍，我待英語如初戀。

來自金山詞霸 每日一句

2. The papers in maths and English are very testing.

數學試卷和英語試卷很難。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Why are Geography, Drama, Art and English in the ascendant?

為什麽地理、戲劇、藝術和英語逐漸受寵？

來自柯林斯例句

4. This courtroom battle has been a poor advert for English justice.

這場法庭上的爭論為英格蘭的司法製度做了一次拙劣的廣告。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Teddy clucked his tongue like a disapproving English matron.

特迪咂了咂舌頭，活像個不以為然的英國女舍監。

來自柯林斯例句