5. Shakespeare coined around 1,700 new English words, his most successful inventions including “addiction”, “lacklustre”, “priceless” and “mountaineer”. But not all of them stuck: among the many Shakespearean words that have passed out of use are “unsisting” (unhelpful), “immoment” (trifling), “cadent” (falling) and the frankly awful “plantage” (vegetation). Lucky escape.
5.莎士比亞創造了大約1700個新英語詞匯，他最成功的發明包括addiction”, “lacklustre”, “priceless” and “mountaineer”。但不是所有的都留下來了：很多莎士比亞創造的詞匯現在已經不用了，比如unsisting” (unhelpful), “immoment” (trifling), “cadent” (falling)，還有十分直白的“plantage” (vegetation)。真是幸運的漏網。

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