英语的发展史-课件【PPT演示稿】

that sprang from the European Renaissance. Translations of Greek and Roman classics were poured onto the printed page, and with them thousands of Latin words like capsule and habitual, and Greek words Latin and thermometer. Today we still borrow from Latin and Greek to name new inventions, like video, television and cyberspace. 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。 Later United States independence also makes English the further development. 后来美国的独立也使得英语进一步发展 English has gradually developed into two branches - British English and American English. 英语逐渐发展成为两个分支-英式英语和美式英语。