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Saxon是什么意思

Saxon

英 ['s?ks?n] 美

n. 撒克遜人
adj. 撒克遜人的

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Saxon 撒克遜人

來自 Saxon,撒克遜人，來自 Proto-Germanic*Sahsa,石頭，石制刀具，刀，來自 PIE*sek,砍，切，詞源同 saw,segment.詞義演變比較 Frank,法蘭克人，原義為標(biāo)槍。

英文詞源

Saxon (n.): c. 1200, from Late Latin Saxonem (nominative Saxo; also source of French Saxon, Spanish Sajon, Italian Sassone), usually found in plural Saxones, from a Germanic source (Old English Seaxe, Old High German Sahsun, German Sachse "Saxon"), with a possible literal sense of "swordsmen" (compare Old English seax, Old Frisian, Old Norse sax "knife, short sword, dagger," Old High German Saxnot, name of a war-god), from Proto-Germanic *sahsam "knife," from PIE *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)).

The word figures in the well-known story, related by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who got it from Nennius, of the treacherous slaughter by the Anglo-Saxons of their British hosts:
Accordingly they all met at the time and place appointed, and began to treat of peace; and when a fit opportunity offered for executing his villany, Hengist cried out, "Nemet oure Saxas," and the same instant seized Vortigern, and held him by his cloak. The Saxons, upon the signal given, drew their daggers, and falling upon the princes, who little suspected any such design, assassinated them to the number of four hundred and sixty barons and consuls ....
The OED editors helpfully point out that the correct Old English (with an uninflected plural) would be nimae eowre seax. For other Germanic national names that may have derived from characteristic tribal weapons, see Frank, Lombard. As an adjective from 1560s. Still in 20c. used by Celtic speakers to mean "an Englishman" (Welsh Sais, plural Seison "an Englishman;" Seisoneg "English").

In reference to the modern German state of Saxony (German Sachsen, French Saxe) it is attested from 1630s. Saxon is the source of the -sex in Essex, Sussex, etc. (compare Middlesex, from Old English Middel-Seaxe "Middle Saxons"). Bede distinguished the Anglo-Saxons, who conquered much of southern Britain, from the Ealdesaxe "Old Saxons," who stayed in Germany.

雙語例句

1. These Severn Valley woods have been exploited for timber since Saxon times.: 從撒克遜時(shí)代起就開始采伐塞文山谷的這些樹林獲取木料。

2. Ex-cavations have revealed Roman and Anglo-Saxon remains in the area.: 挖掘工作已顯示在該地區(qū)有羅馬和盎格魯-撒克遜時(shí)代的遺跡。

3. Debilly had no Anglo-Saxon shyness about discussing money.: 在談到錢時(shí)，德比利毫無英國式的羞澀。

4. Aisles were added to the original Saxon building in the Norman period.: 在諾曼時(shí)期,原來的薩克森風(fēng)格的建筑物都增添了走廊.

5. Anglo - Saxon is the forerunner of modern English.: 盎格魯撒克遜語是現(xiàn)代英語的先驅(qū).

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