invented words(英语新词)

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1、InventedWords  NewwordsappearinEnglisheveryday.Doyouknowhowthesewordsareborn?ReadthefollowingpassagetofindvariouswaysEnglishwordsareinvented. 英语中每天都有新词出现。你知道这些词是怎么产生的吗？阅读下文你就能找到造英语单词的各种方法。ScholarsguessthatEnglishhasabout600000words,butthereareprobablymore.Newwords

2、continuetocomeintothelanguageatsucharatethatnodictionarycouldpossiblykeepupwiththem.TheoldwordswhichwereborncenturiesagointheAnglo-Saxon,GermanicandFrenchlanguagesmakeupfourfifthsoftheEnglishlanguage.Theotheronefifthismadeuppartlyofborrowedwordsandpartlyofthreeoth

3、erkindsofwords:wordsfromthenamesofpeoplesandplaces;imitativewords;andinventedwords. 学者们估计英语大约有600000个单词，不过也许更多。新的词语不断进入英语，其速度之快，大概没有一本字典能跟得上。几个世纪以前，源于盎格鲁•撒克逊语、日尔曼语以及法语的原有词汇，占英语的五分之四。余下的五分之一，一部分由外来词组成，另外的部分由其它三种词组成，它们是：表示人名、地名的专有名词；象声词以及新造的词。Ampere,voltandwattareal

4、lunitsofelectricity,andtheyarenamedforthemenwhodiscoveredthem;AndreM.Ampere,aFrenchphysicist;AlessandroVolta,anItalianphysicist;andJamesWatt,aScottishengineerandinventor.Nowadayswealldrinkpasteurizedmilk,thatis,milkwhichiscleanandpurified.Pasteurizedgetsitsnamefro

5、mLouisPasteur,aFrenchdoctorwhoinventedtheprocessforpurifyingmilk.TherearemanywordslikethisintheEnglishlanguage. 安培、伏特和瓦特都是电学的计量单位，它们都是用发现者的名字命名的，他们分别是是法国物理学家安德烈•M•安培、意大利物理学家阿勒森德罗•伏特、苏格兰工程师兼发明家詹姆士•瓦特。今天我们都喝用巴氏灭菌法消毒的牛奶，这种奶即清又纯。巴氏灭菌法便得名于法国医生路易斯•巴斯德，是他发明了消毒牛奶的制作方法。在英语

6、中像这样的词有许多。　Imitativewordsarewordsthatsoundlikethethingoractiontheystandfor.Herearesomeexamples:   buzzclickbangmumblechirpbawl    crashclapmuttergigglehumgulp   Thereisnoneedtosayanythingelseaboutthesewords,fortheyspeakforthemselves.Youcanprobablythinkofmanymore. 

7、象声词代表它们模仿的事物或行为的声音。现举例如下：  嗡嗡滴答砰砰咕哝喳喳嚎啕  扑通啪啪嘀咕咯咯嘤嘤呼哧  对于上述单词无需再作任何解释，因为它们不言自明。或许你还可以想出更多类似的单词来。Thentherearetheinventedwords.English-speakingpeoplehavealwaysmadeupwordsasitsuitedthem,andtheycontinuetodosoeveryday.Onekindofinventedwordisonewhichismadeupoftwootherwo

8、rds.Dictionariescallthiskindofwordacompound.Ifyouput"play"and"thing"together,yougetthecompound,"plaything."Howmanycanyouaddtothislist?    raincoatmilksh