| 单词 | dead language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead language dead language n. a language no longer in vernacular use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > living, dead, or archaic language classical language1752 dead language1781 1781 S. Johnson Addison in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets V. 8 A dead language, in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 74 In fact, Bede is writing in a dead language, Gregory in a living. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) xiii. ii. 463 I happened to drop a remark to the effect that Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, was a dead language. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. (Central ed.) 21 Oct. a19/1 This month marks the publication of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone’—in ancient Greek. Brian Carney examines the effects of translating pop-lit into the dead languages. < as lemmas |
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