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年代现代英语中，结合了名词home和land。

Today, modern English speakers - regardless of social class - have come to use both.

而现如今说英语，不论社会等级，两种名称都会使用。

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现代英语所占比例。

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），除非是开玩笑。

Because of this, Modern English includes many Latin and Greek words.

由于个原因，近代英语中包含了许多拉丁词汇和希腊词汇。

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

元音巨大变化标志着中古英语和现代英语之间转变。

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

艾丽斯，能请你把句话翻译成现代英语吗？或许在下期节目中。

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

改革将使每个学英语更容易，使在现代英语诞生之前就已经标准化、早已过时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.

“给付钱被称作’ferme（地租）’”，或者，在现代英语里，就是“farm”。

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

个发音在现代英语中是很常见，我就让你们自行练习了。

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

但在现代英语中，没有样用，它只表示“我真很累”。

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开始。

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

是因为我们用 goodbye，可能是现代英式英语中说再见最正式方式。

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工作" 样声明在现代英语中是不同。

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”是半情态动词，但在现代英语中很少样使用。

The two senses of " cleave" are actually different words that happen to be written the same way in modern English.

“cleave”两种意思实际上是不同单词，只是在现代英语中恰巧书写方式相同而已。

And bourn is an Early Modern English word meaning, like, boundary.

bourn 是一个早期现代英语单词，意思是边界。

In Early Modern English thou was used as the informal version.

在早期现代英语中，thou 被用作非正式版本。

Modern English arrived in the seventeenth century.

现代英语出现于十七世纪。

Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare, towards the end of the sixteenth century.

现代英语大约在威廉·莎士比亚 (William Shakespeare) 时代开始，即 16 世纪末。