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英语吗？或许下期节目中。

It may be hard to see the roots of Modern English, underneath all the words borrowed from french, Latin or Norse and other languages.

英语的根源并不是一目了然，因为背后融合着法语、拉丁语或者斯堪的纳维亚语以及他语言。

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

还有，英语中，我们从来不说 " Good day" （日安），除非是开玩笑。

YOU for singular, YOU for plural, YOU for formal, YOU for informal. I know many other languages have a plural form of YOU, but not modern English, that's great, most of the time, however, sometimes it can pose a problem.

YOU 可以表单数，YOU 可以表复数，YOU 可以表正式，YOU 可以表非正式。我知道许多他语言都有 YOU 的复数形式，但英语没有，大多数候这很好，然而，有它会带来问题。

By the time Miguel de Cervantes published the first part of " Don Quixote" in 1605, the language was arguably more similar to modern Spanish than plays of one of his contemporaries, William Shakespeare, were to modern English.

米格尔·德·塞万提斯 1605 年出版《堂吉诃德》第一部分，语言与西班牙语的相似程度超过了威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧与英语的相似程度。

In 1926 H.W.Fowler, godfather of Englishusage writers, considered this subjunctive " dying" in " A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" , except in archaic phrases such as " so be it" or in " pretentious journalism" .

1926年，英国用法作家教父 H.W.Fowler 《英语用法词典》中表示，除了“so be it”等古语或“装腔作态的新闻体”中，认为这种虚拟语气“正消亡”。

But in the last couple of decades, people have started pronouncing it often, which is incidentally closer to how it was pronounced before the advent of modern English 400 years ago.

但最近几十年里，人们开始把它读作 " ofTen" ，顺便说一句，它更接近 400年前英语出之前的发音。

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

而如今说英语的人，不论社会等级，这两种名称都会使用。

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

由于这个原因，近英语中包含了许多拉丁词汇和希腊词汇。

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

英语中，我们更常非正式语言中使用短语动词。

They used parables to illustrate such financial axioms as “Live on less than you earn” or “Make your gold work for you” and were updated in 2004, with modern English instead of the old-fashioned King James kind.

他们以寓言的形式阐述了类似“挣得多，花得少”或者“为自己找一份黄金工作”等金融定理。该系列书籍2004年得到更新出版，用英语替了国王詹姆斯的古英语。

It doesn't sound like modern English at all so I suggest you focus on the structure presented in the first two sentences.

它听起来根本不像英语，所以我建议你只需关注前两个句子中的结构。

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

但是，事实改变不了。英语中，" oblivious" 的意思是‘忽视；忽略’。

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" 这样的声明英语中是不的。

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

“cleave”的两种意思实际上是不的单词，只是英语中恰巧书写方式相而已。

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

homeland一词最早出17世纪60年的英语中，结合了名词home和land。

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英语所占的比例。

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

“给付的钱被称作’ferme（地租）’”，或者，英语里，就是“farm”。

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

但英语中，没有人这样用，它只表示“我真的很累”。

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

这个发音英语中是很常见的，我就让你们自行练习了。