威廉·莎士比亚不仅是个多产的作家,他对英语语言的发展也产生了极为重要的影响。莎士比亚的词汇非常丰富,全部的作品一共用到了三万多个词汇。据说英语中至少有两千多个单词和短语是他创造的,如eyeball,watchdog,baseless等。莎士比亚创造的这些词汇融入了英语,很多一直沿用至今,但我们用了他的词汇却不知道。比如,你说股市暴跌让你的钱vanished into thin air(烟消云散,蒸发掉了),你其实在弓 William Shakespeare was not only a prolific writer, but also had a very significant influence on the development of English. Shakespeare’s vocabulary is very rich, all works have used more than 30,000 words. It is said that at least two thousand words and phrases in English are what he created, such as eyeball, watchdog, baseless and so on. Shakespeare created these words into English, many have been in use today, but we use his vocabulary but do not know. For example, if you say that the stock market crash plunges your money into being thinned (evaporated, evaporated), you actually bow