单词Old English
na.: 古代英语；〈英〉哥特体(铅字)
网络: 古英语；古英文；古英语时期
古英语（约公元 1150 年前的英语，与现代英语差异很大）:
the English language before about 1150, which is very different from modern English
古代英语;【英】哥特体(铅字)
It was one of those words that came with church-Latin to England before the arrival of French; that makes it Old English.
在法语侵入英语之前，这个词随着许多拉丁宗教词汇进入英格兰；在此过程中，它成了一个古英语词汇。
the old English lady decided to leave her property to her pet dog.
那个英国老太太决定由她心爱的宠物狗来继承财产。
The word was already being used in Old English and shows up in the written record about the year 1000.
这个词在古英语中已经存在，最早的文字记录在公元1000年左右。
Old English is extremely difficult to understand. Only a few experts can read this earliest form of English.
古英语极难理解。仅有少数几个专家能够读懂这种早期形式的英语。
Istanbul was a bit of a freaky game. Do you think this one is going to revert back to the dour old English-Italian one-goal-in-it affair?
伊斯坦布尔决赛有点偏离常规。你认为这一次将恢复到保守的英格兰-大利式一球决胜？
It has changed so much that there are almost no words said the same way today as in Old English.
它（词汇）变化如此之大，当今所用的词汇几乎没有一个是和古代英语表达一样的。
her, the old English lady decided to leave her property to her pet dog.
由于没有子女来继承她的财产，那个英国老太太决定由她心爱。
The church was one of those fine old English structures worth travelling to see.
那座教堂是那些古老壮观的英国建筑物之一，值得去参观。
When the word lord came into Old English more than a thousand years ago it held the meaning of someone who manages servants.
当单词lord在一千多年以前进入古英语的时候，它有“仆人管理者”的意思。
It was in the Old English translation of this Latin biography that we first get the word bitter.
后来，这部原文为拉丁语的传记有了古英语译本——从中，我们头一次碰到了单词bitter。