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English noun—英 n (almost always used)英文 n (often used)Examples:Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English renaissance philosopher and early scientist—Charles Dickens (1812-1870), great English novelist—Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist—transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)—rising tone (phonetics, e.g. on a question in English)—character used in Taiwan as a substitute for a real name (like "X" in English)—hanging participle (error of grammar in English)—Henry V (1387-1422), English warrior king, victor of Agincourt—John Wallis (1616-1703), English mathematician, precursor of Newton—Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer—"receive the Mandate of Heaven" (traditional English translation)—Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor—TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)—Henry Hudson (?-1611?), English explorer and navigator—Eton public school (English elite school)—Portsmouth, southern English seaport—Colin Firth, English actor (1960-)—voiced consonant (English z or v, as opposed unvoiced s or f)—Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English—IELTS (International English Language Testing System)—Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet—John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Romantic poet—"Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)—the central pavilion of the Forbidden City rendered in English as "Hall of Supreme Harmony"—Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English—General English Proficiency Test (GEPT), commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999—Alan Turing (1912-1954), English mathematician, considered as the father of computer science—noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian— |