英语不断地吸收对其有用的各种外来语,因而大大地丰富了自己的词汇。古英语只有5～6万个单词,而现代英语的单词量已增加到70万个左右,其中大约80%来自其他语言,如拉丁语、意大利语、希腊语、德语、法语等50多个语种。由于历史、地理及文化的原因,被英语吸收的汉语词汇并不多,不过下面这些英语单词,都有明显的汉语来历: English constantly absorbs various foreign words that are useful to it, thus greatly enriching her own vocabulary. Old English only has between 50,000 and 60,000 words, while modern English has increased its number of words to about 700,000, of which about 80% come from other languages ​​such as Latin, Italian, Greek, German, French and more than 50 languages . Due to historical, geographical and cultural reasons, there are not many Chinese words absorbed by English, but the following English words have obvious Chinese origin: