Part Ⅰ Language faithfully reflects the spirit of the age. As soiecity develops,new ideas are being conceived.and expressed by the people. Language, asthe carrier for the eagerest people who communicate, with each other, is toexpress new ideas, new processes, and new products. To meet the needs, alanguage can do three things:to form a new word, to borrow a word fromother languages, or add new meanings to established words. Of the threeways, the simplest one is to have old words taken in additional mean-ing. When a word losses its old meaning and comes to refer to
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