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上文说的是词汇演变的一个重要途径:构造新词。接下去让我们来看一下英语词汇演变中的旧词消失这一现象。同新词的增加一样,在一种语言的发展过程中,词项也会随着旧事物、旧概念的消失而消失。但是,同新词的增加相比,旧词的消失这一过程是比较缓慢的。不太容易引起人们的注意。可是,当一词项所表示的物体不再存在或使用时,它就自然而然地不复存在了。例如,在我们发明洗涤剂以前,我们用肥皂来洗涤衣物。故此我们使用 soap flakes(皂片)这一
What is said above is an important way of the evolution of vocabulary: constructing new words. Let us now look at the disappearance of old words in the evolution of English vocabulary. Like the increase of new words, in the development of a language, terms will disappear with the disappearance of old things and old concepts. However, compared with the increase of new words, the disappearance of old words is relatively slow. It is not easy to attract people’s attention. However, when the term represented by an item no longer exists or is used, it naturally disappears. For example, we wash our laundry with soap before we invent the detergent. So we use soap flakes