许国璋教授主编的《英语》第四册第三课中出现有一单词 hardware,中文的意思是“金属器具”(articles made from metal)。它是由 ware 与 hard构成的一个复合词。Ware 作为一个独立的词,表达 manufactured thing 之意已有数百年的历史。据词源资料记载,公元十一世纪,ware 一词就开始使用了。ware The word “hardware” (articles made from metal) appears in the third lesson of the third volume of “English” in the book edited by Professor Xu Guozhen. It is a compound word consisting of ware and hard. As an independent word, Ware has expressed the meaning of manufactured thing for hundreds of years. According to etymological records, in the eleventh century AD, the term ware began to be used. Ware