五古语的沿用语言的起源远在有文字以前。咱们现在所说的话里头,有许多字眼是从古代一直沿用到现在的。例如“人”字,不但古文字里有它,经过几千年仍旧活在大众的口语里,我们就把它当做现代口语的字眼看待了。本节里所谈的古语的沿用,不是指“人”“马”“牛”“羊”等等,而是指一般口语里不用或不常用的字眼。这些字眼大都是从书本上学来的,所以是古语的沿用。我们把这一类字眼叫做文言的字眼。文言的字眼有些也被吸收到口语里,变为一般口语 The use of ancient Chinese language origins far in the text before. There are many words we have now said that have been used from ancient times to the present. For example, “people”, not only in ancient Chinese, but in thousands of years still live in the public speaking, we treat it as the words of modern speaking. The usage of the old saying in this section does not refer to “human”, “horse”, “cow”, “sheep” and so on, but to the unused or uncommon words in common oral English. Most of these words are learned from the book, so is the use of the old saying. We call this type of language the classical words. Some words in classical Chinese have also been absorbed into spoken language and become general spoken language