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失传的英语词汇重出江湖原文Terms?of?endearment?in?the?English?language?like“darling”?and?“my?dove”?have?been?used?forhundreds?of?years,?but?others?fell?out?of?favor.Now?you?can?find?out?more?about?lots?of?phrasesover?the?past?thousand?years?in?a?vast?databaseof?English?words?and?phrases?that’s?just?beenpublished?online.?Doctor?Mark?Alexander?is?senior?lecturer?of?English?at?Glasgow?University.Valory?Sanderson?asked?him?for?more?examples?of?phrases?or?words?that?have?now?becomeobsolete.So?why?does?the?language?change?dramatically?over?the?years?So?about?70%?of?English?is?borrowed.?We?just?borrow?a?better?word?or?a?different?word?forvariety.?So?words?like?“belly”?try?to?get?replaced?by?the?Latin?“abdomen”.?Just?becausepeople?like?show?off.?They?like?variation?in?their?life.?Or?sometimes?because?the?middle-classes?adopt?a?term?which?distinguishes?them?from?the?working?classes?and?so?on.?For?along?time,?the?animal?sheep?and?the?meat?that?you?got?from?a?sheep?was?“sheep”.?Andthen?after?the?French?came?over?in?Norman?Conquest,?you?then?had?words?like“mutton”appearing?which?is?the?French?for?“sheep”.?And?“muttons”?apply?to?the?meat.?Youcan?see?how?society?has?changed?very?quickly?just?by?looking?at?words,?for?example“foreign?people”.?And?you?can?see?some?very?offensive?terms?and?been?replaced?in?lateryears?with?much?nicer?terms.?Same?for?woman.?A?lot?of?the?terms?for?woman?in?the?historyof?English?are?quite?offensive.Doctor?Mark?Alexander.Google?says?it?was?drawing?its?Internet-connected?glasses,?the?so-called?Google?glasses.The?company?will?stop?taking?orders?for?the?product?from?next?week,?but?insists?it’scommitted?to?developing?future?versions?of?the?glasses.?Our?technology?correspondentRory?Cathleen-Jones?reports.When?Google?glass?first?went?on?sale?two?years?ago?to?a?select?group?of?softwaredevelopers,?it?was?held?as?a?futuristic?product?which?could?change?the?way?we?live.?Thesmart?glasses?allowed?users?to?receive?information?from?the?Internet?in?a?small?screenedperched?above?their