| 词汇 | dead language |
| 释义 | dead languagedead language a dead language, for example Latin or Ancient Greek, is no longer used by ordinary people 死语，死语言〔现在普通人不再使用的语言，如拉丁语或古希腊语〕 → living language at living1(1) Examples from the Corpus dead language• Latin is a dead language.• He stared, then said her words himself, the way he'd spoken Latin as a boy. Dead language.• There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years.• Also included is the artificial adoption of dead languages for nationalistic purposes.• He made the dead languages into living literature. → dead language at dead1(7) |
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