Anglo-Saxon的意思|Anglo-Saxon的解释-里氏词典

Anglo-Saxon [,æŋgləu 'sæksən]

n. 盎格鲁撒克逊人

a. 盎格鲁撒克逊人的

Anglo-Saxon is the forerunner of modern English.
盎格鲁撒克逊语是现代英语的先驱。
Not everything begins exactly on time, even in Anglo-Saxon culture.
即使在盎格鲁·撒克逊人的文化中，也不是每件事都准时开始。
They brought with them their languages, which also mixed with Anglo-Saxon.
在入侵的同时，维京人也带来了他们的语言，而他们的语言也和盎格鲁-撒克逊语交汇在一起。

anglo-saxon

[ noun ]

a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman Conquest

<noun.person>

a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'

<noun.person>

in the ninth century the Vikings began raiding the Anglo-Saxons in Britain

his ancestors were not just British, they were Anglo-Saxons

English prior to about 1100

<noun.communication>

[ adj ]

of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language

<adj.pert>

Anglo-Saxon poetry

The Anglo-Saxon population of Scotland

German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis
origin.]
1. A native or one of the people of Germany.

2. The German language.

3.
(a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding
in capriciosly involved figures.
(b) A social party at which the german is danced.

{High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern
Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th
to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the
15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of
Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature.
The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern
literary language, are often called Middle German, and the
Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is
also used to cover both groups.

{Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the
Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or
{Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its
dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low
German}), spoken in many dialects.

Anglo-Saxon \An"glo-Sax"on\ adj.
1. of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language;
as, Anglo-Saxon poetry; The Anglo-Saxon population of
Scotland.
[WordNet 1.5]

Anglo-Saxon \An"glo-Sax"on\, n. [L. Angli-Saxones English
Saxons.]
1. A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the
Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a
continental (or ``Old'') Saxon.

2. pl. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of
England, or the English people, collectively, before the
Norman Conquest.

It is quite correct to call [AE]thelstan ``King of
the Anglo-Saxons,'' but to call this or that subject
of [AE]thelstan ``an Anglo-Saxon'' is simply
nonsense. --E. A.
Freeman.

3. The language of the English people before the Norman
conquest in 1066 (sometimes called {Old English}). See
{Saxon}.

Syn: Old English

4. One of the race or people who claim descent from the
Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in
England; a person of English descent in its broadest
sense.

5. a person of Anglo-Saxon (esp British) descent whose native
tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced
by English culture as in "WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon
Protestant'"; "this Anglo-Saxon view of things".
[WordNet 1.5]

There was a fairly interesting editorial in the London Sunday Telegraph last week on the subject of crime and punishment, an Anglo-Saxon obsession these days.
But there are two bright sides to "True Blue," although it must be said its debut wastes guest star Amanda Plummer in a role of few lines and many squints as your basic Anglo-Saxon female member of your basic Middle East terrorist cell.
Instead it sees the deregulation and liberalisation pursued by the Anglo-Saxon economies during the 1980s as the cause of their current ills.
For some, the sombre hotel, all red leather upholstery and restrained colours, exudes the atmosphere of a London club, and typifies Genoa's Anglo-Saxon leanings.
The recession in the Anglo-Saxon economies has depressed takeover activity and reduced investment in capital equipment. Many banks have been hit by company failures resulting from injudicious lending practices and difficult economic conditions.
"We're looking at a world movement which covers every conceivable theme," Alistair Niven, literature director at London's Arts Council, said in an interview. "One has to abandon the notion of the Anglo-Saxon tradition.
The other was A Fatal Inversion which began on BBC1 on Sunday. If you watched Anglo-Saxon Attitudes last night you will presumably need little urging to watch the other two parts.
Germans regard the fuss about top people's pay as a phenomenon of the free-wheeling Anglo-Saxon business world.
Some Anglo-Saxon phenomena are acceptable in France.
LITTLE in one's sporting life can prepare the Anglo-Saxon reporter for the confusion - and impact - of pelota.
As a consequence - argues Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve - recovery is also likely to be particularly slow. This slowdown, so far most evident in the Anglo-Saxon economies, has been both unexpected and consistently underestimated.
And as Dolores, Alex Kingston captures a wild Latin spontaneity beyond the range of most Anglo-Saxon actresses; one might think it a raw natural gift, were her perpetual mood-switches not achieved with such technical control.
Little wonder that, behind the scenes, Japanese officials are becoming increasingly edgy. Japan is midway through an Anglo-Saxon style debt deflation, a fact that is finally dawning in Tokyo.
Not only does state ownership envelop a wide swathe of the productive economy, but publicly-quoted companies remain better protected against takeover than their Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
These factors deter employers from taking on new employees and damage job creation.' But the reality of the Anglo-Saxon labour market performance in the 1980s is different from this rhetoric.
Even the cosmopolitan Mr Raymond Barre, the centrist politician, has warned publicly of an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy to sell the franc short.
But the messages from the Anglo-Saxon world were far from bullish. Aside from the sluggish state of the world economy, a number of the specialist sessions during the congress were instructively gloomy.
Both Bush and Quayle are WASPs _ white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants _ with a twist.
Over the period 1979-92, US employment grew by 19 per cent, French employment by 3 per cent and UK employment by 0.4 per cent. More important, this employment growth has co-existed with persistently lower male employment in both Anglo-Saxon countries.
The dominance of the banks in the capital markets of continental Europe has always militated against the adoption of Anglo-Saxon financial habits such as hostile takeovers and high pay-out ratios.
Public debt was almost exploding.' Matif was founded in 1986, using a structure distinctly different from its Anglo-Saxon counterparts.
That position looks far less credible today. Some, it is true, believe that the ERM was mugged by Anglo-Saxon speculators.
Companies with share quotations on Anglo-Saxon markets, for instance, may have to give as much information as their overseas counterparts.
But the Anglo-Saxon habit of quickly adopting first names can affront some sensibilities.
It reads like this: a domestic business, once limited largely to the Anglo-Saxon world, has gone international.
This safety-first trend has been enhanced by losses in the wake of falling stock market values in Japan and recession in the Anglo-Saxon countries. Attitudes and conditions have changed rapidly.
So yesterday, Samaranch came to London to face his Anglo-Saxon critics who want to unseat him.
However, voting-right restrictions still protect it against takeover. But in opening up to foreign investors, is Nestle not worried about falling prey to the short-term preoccupations of Anglo-Saxon institutions?
"It will be a long time before the transaction methods practiced in the Anglo-Saxon systems will be used on the continent," says Martin Waldenstrom, president of Booz-Allen Acquisition Services, a unit of Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc.
Together, they control 1,800 offices world-wide, with Wagons-Lits claiming the Latin world and Thomas Cook the Anglo-Saxon.

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