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

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

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

而如今说英语的人，不论社会等级，两种名称都会。

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。

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

还有，在英语中，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.

元音的巨大变化标志着中古英语和英语之间的转变。

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" .

改革将每个人学英语更容易，在英语诞生之前就已经标准化的、早已过时的英语拼写更适应需要。

" 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，在英语里，就是“farm”。

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

个发音在英语中是很常见的，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" .

但在英语中，没有人样，它只表示“我真的很累”。

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，标志着早期英语的开始。

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 goodbye，可能是英式英语中说再见的最正式的方式。

Yao notes, a statement such as I have finished my work in Old English would be different in modern English.

姚指出，像" 我已经古英语完成了我的工作" 样的声明在英语中是不同的。

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，但在英语中很少样。

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同的单词，只是在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 是一个早期英语单词，意思是边界。

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

在早期英语中，thou 被作非正式版本。

Modern English arrived in the seventeenth century.

英语出于十七世纪。

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

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