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New words enter the English language all the time.
新詞匯一直源源不斷地進入英語。
In fact, English has always been in a state of evolution.
事實上，英語一直處于進化的狀態。
And in recent years, more and more words and phrases have entered the language.
近年來，越來越多的單詞和短語進入了英語。
But where do all these new words come from?
但是這些新詞是從哪里來的呢？
Words come out of the culture that they represent and they describe.
詞匯來自于他們所表示和描述的文化。
So if you've got a new development in medicine, for example, bird flu, then you'll get a new word coming out of that.
所以如果醫學上有了新進展，比如禽流感，那么我們就能從中得到一個新詞匯。
If there is a military conflict, that may well bring all sorts of new words to the fore.
如果出現軍事沖突，那很可能會出現各種各樣的新詞。
Going back in time, the First and Second World Wars were times of great creativity of language because people from different countries met each other and exchanged their words and words developed from there.
回望歷史，兩次世界大戰期間，語言展現了其偉大的創造力，因為不同國家的人們相遇并交換了彼此的詞匯，新詞由此出現。
So, words come from the playground.
所以，詞匯來源于運動場。
They come from politics.
詞匯來源于政治。
They come from any area of life, because every area of life is changing from day to day.
詞匯來自生活的各個領域，因為生活的每個領域都在不斷變化。
And does English have more words than any other language?
英語詞匯是不是比其他語言多？
It certainly has more than other European languages and probably more than any other language in the world.
一定比其他歐洲語言詞匯要多，而且可能比世界上任何其他語言都要多。
English is put together from so many different bits.
英語是由許多不同的部分拼湊而成的。
Originally, it was a Germanic language.
最初，它是日耳曼語。
And then after the Norman conquest in 1066,there was enormous influx of French words.
1066年諾曼征服之后，大量的法語詞匯涌入。
And it comes from a country, the United Kingdom, which was quite an expansive trading colonial power in the past.
它是聯合王國語言，而過去聯合王國是一個非常龐大的貿易殖民大國。
And all these have brought all sorts of other new words into the language.
所有這些都催生了各種各樣的新詞。
