In Modern English, we use phrasal verbs more often in informal language.

在现代英语中，我们更常在非正式语言中使用短语词。

The great vowel shift marks a change between middle English and modern English.

元音的巨变化标志着中古英语和现代英语之间的转变。

Listen out for the proportion of modern English that comes from Anglo-Saxon.

听一下来源于盎格鲁萨克逊语的现代英语所占的比例。

It was based more on German than the English we speak at present.

当时的英语更多地以德语为基础的，而现代英语不。

So, it's actually very common now in modern English and I'll leave this up to you.

这个发音在现代英语中很常见的，我就让你们自行练习了。

Well, Alice, can you translate that into modern English, please? Maybe that's for another show.

艾丽斯，能请你把这句话翻译成现代英语吗？或许在下期节目中。

But in modern English, no one uses it like that, it just means " I'm really tired" .

但在现代英语中，没有人这样用，它只表示“我真的很累”。

Also, we never use " Good day" in modern English, except as a joke.

还有，在现代英语中，我们从来不说 " Good day" （日安），除非开玩笑。

Shakespeare wrote towards the end of the great vowel shift and marks the start of the early modern English.

莎士比亚在元音转变即将结束时写作，标志着早期现代英语的开始。

" The sum of money to be paid was called ferme, " - or, in Modern English, farm.

“给付的钱被称作’ferme（地租）’”，或者，在现代英语里，就“farm”。

It would modernize the old fashioned spelling which was standardized before Modern English was" born" .

改革将使每个人英语更容易，使在现代英语诞生之前就已经标准化的、早已过时的英语拼写更适应现代需要。

In some books, Modern English is divided into two-Early Modern and Late Modern English.

在一些书中，现代英语分为早期现代英语和晚期现代英语。

The word homeland first appeared in Modern English in the 1660s. It combined the nouns " home" and " land."

homeland一词最早出现在17世纪60年代的现代英语中，结合了名词home和land。

Modern English arrived in the 17th century.

现代英语出现在17世纪。

Many textbooks will say that 'need' or 'dare' are semi-modals, but they're rarely used in this way in modern English.

许多教科书会说“need”或“dare”半情态词，但在现代英语中很少这样使用。

Yao notes, a statement such as I have finished my work in Old English would be different in modern English.

姚指出，像" 我已经用古英语完成了我的工作" 这样的声明在现代英语中不同的。

And bourn is an Early Modern English word meaning, like, boundary.

bourn 一个早期现代英语单词，意思边界。

Modern English arrived in the seventeenth century.

现代英语出现于十七世纪。

But we also have the indefinite article, which in Modern English is " a" .

但我们也有不定冠词，在现代英语中“a”。

Old English was a very complex language, at least in comparison with modern English.

古英语一种非常复杂的语言， 至少与现代英语相比这样。