Well, Alice, can you translate that into modern English, please? Maybe that's for another show.

艾丽斯，能请你把这句话翻译成现代英语吗？或许在下期节目中。

Listen out for the proportion of modern English that comes from Anglo-Saxon.

听一下来源于盎格鲁萨克逊语的现代英语所占的比例。

Also, we never use " Good day" in modern English, except as a joke.

还有，在现代英语中，我们从来不说 " Good day" （日安），除非开玩笑。

It was based more on German than the English we speak at present.

当时的英语更多德语为基础的，而现代英语不。

I teach British English pronunciation, the modern RP accent, that is my accent.

我教英国英语音现代，我的口音现代标准口音。

In Modern English, we use phrasal verbs more often in informal language.

在现代英语中，我们更常在非正式语言中使用短语动词。

So, it's actually very common now in modern English and I'll leave this up to you.

这个音在现代英语中很常见的，我就让你们自行练习了。

It would modernize the old fashioned spelling which was standardized before Modern English was" born" .

改革将使每个人学英语更容易，使在现代英语诞生之前就已经标准化的、早已过时的英语拼写更适应现代需要。

" The sum of money to be paid was called ferme, " - or, in Modern English, farm.

“给付的钱被称作’ferme（租）’”，或者，在现代英语里，就“farm”。

In modern American English, ought to is seldom used with the past tense or in the question form.

在现代美式英语中，ought to 很少与过去式或疑问形式一起使用。

But in modern English, no one uses it like that, it just means " I'm really tired" .

但在现代英语中，没有人这样用，它只表示“我真的很累”。

The great vowel shift marks a change between middle English and modern English.

元音的巨大变化标志着中古英语和现代英语之间的转变。

Shakespeare wrote towards the end of the great vowel shift and marks the start of the early modern English.

莎士比亚在元音大转变即将结束时写作，标志着早期现代英语的开始。

What we do know is this: the language of Shakespeare is alive and well in modern, everyday English.

莎士比亚的语言生动，并且在现代日常英语中也很实用。

That's because we used " goodbye" which is probably the most formal way of saying goodbye in modern British English.

这因为我们用 goodbye，这可能现代英式英语中说再见的最正式的方式。

Yao notes, a statement such as I have finished my work in Old English would be different in modern English.

姚指出，像" 我已经用古英语完成了我的工作" 这样的声明在现代英语中不同的。

Many textbooks will say that 'need' or 'dare' are semi-modals, but they're rarely used in this way in modern English.

许多教科书会说“need”或“dare”半情态动词，但在现代英语中很少这样使用。

The word homeland first appeared in Modern English in the 1660s. It combined the nouns " home" and " land."

homeland一词最早出现在17世纪60年代的现代英语中，结合了名词home和land。

What I've done is I've chosen 80 contractions with apostrophes, that I believe are the most common in modern-day English.

我所做的，我选择了 80 个带有撇号的缩写形式，我认为这些缩略形式在现代英语中最常见的。

The fact remains, in modern English " oblivious" means unconscious, not paying attention, and that has become its modern, correct use.

但，事实改变不了。在现代英语中，" oblivious" 的意思‘忽视；忽略’。