• n. 語言；語言文字；表達能力

來自拉丁語lingua,舌頭，語言，詞源同tongue,linguist.

language

language: [13] Like English tongue, Latin lingua ‘tongue’ was used figuratively for ‘language’; from it English gets linguist [16] and linguistic [19]. In the Vulgar Latin spoken by the inhabitants of Gaul, the derivative *linguāticum emerged, and this became in due course Old French langage, source of English language. (The u in the English word, which goes back to the end of the 13th century, is due to association with French langue ‘tongue’.)
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language (n.)

late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language" (see lingual). The form with -u- developed in Anglo-French. Meaning "a language" is from c. 1300, also used in Middle English of dialects:

Mercii, tat beet men of myddel Engelond[,] vnderstondet bettre te side langages, norterne and souterne, tan norterne and souterne vnderstondet eiter oter. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]

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In otir inglis was it drawin, And turnid ic haue it til ur awin Language of the nortin lede, Tat can na notir inglis rede. ["Cursor Mundi," early 14c.]

Language barrier attested from 1933.

1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.

烏克蘭人所說的那種斯拉夫語系的語言類似于俄語。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.

達爾文的語言無論對專家還是非專業人士而言都明白易懂。

來自柯林斯例句

3. His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.

他對語言的誤解是引起其他問題的主要原因。

來自柯林斯例句

4. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.

我們被禁止使用母語，違者將被關進監獄。

來自柯林斯例句

5. All cheques should be made out to "EF International Language Schools"

所有支票的收款人都應是“英孚國際語言學校”。

來自柯林斯例句