英语新词汇的变化和发展 [4]
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what we said is formed by vocabularies . The change of English sometimes refers to the change of English vocabulary . We can know that the change of English vocabulary is various .
3.1 Changes in the meaning of words
We have studied this word “peasant” , the teacher taught us two kinds of expression ways in junior middle school . One is farmer , another kind is peasant. In our minds, peasant is peasants , but the word “peasant” has another meaning in western counties . The meaning in English and the meaning in China are not the same . Peasant is a vocabulary with a derogatory sense in English, “U.S.A.'s traditional dictionary ” has defined peasant as : “The peasant , country person, uneducated person , the rough person. ” “ The person who has the lowest class in the society .” In Chinese, peasant means the person who do farm work and is the important strength in revolutionary period as well as in socialist construction . It is in a positive sense .
3.2 Change in meaning of “Color”
Some English words are not new English words , but because of the change of the English language , they have been given new meanings.
Take “ color” for an example, we know that different colors express different meanings . Because of the different cultural background between China and western countries , even the same word can mean one thing in China , but another in the western countries . So is the meaning of “colors”. The understand that in China and in the west countries are on the contrary . We can see from these examples below :
Blue , blue﹣mood , a blue Monday is an unlucky Monday .
Green , green﹣eyed means envy ( but in Chinese “green﹣eyed” should be “red﹣eyed” )
Green hand , means a new worker without any experience .
Grey hand , means an old worker with much experience .
Grey wisdom , means a man full of wisdom .
Pink lady , it is the name of a kind of cocktail .
White , a white lie is a lie that with friendly meaning .
The meaning of color is not the meaning of the word itself , people gave them new meanings . Our life has been changed day by day , the change of language is unavoidable . The meaning of word has been changed at the same time , no matter we pay attention to it or not , it changed and it will keep on changing as the time pass by .
As an English learner , I have been study English for ten years , I think I still have a long way in study of the English language . The meaning of the English word has been changed . All things are in the process of change in the world . This is the fact that philosophers and poets keep commenting on over the years . The English language, just the same as other things, have participated in entering the total trend of this change .
The modern society is developing with the development of the agriculture and the industry , the change of the society is no ending , so the change of the English language is no ending . We should try our best to do as much research as we can , and find the rule of the change of the English . The change of the meaning of the English word is the key issue that lead us to the success .
3.3 Change of specialized words
As our daily life has been made and complicated day by day , the increase of new things are unavoidable come into being with the development of our society . The increase of new words of English follows the trend . New wods occur various ways and different circles . A lot of special words are generalized . The fashion show of Paris in 1947 was tu
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