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5. Shakespeare coined around 1,700 new English words, his most successful inventions including “addiction”, “lacklustre”, “priceless” and “mountaineer”. But not all of them stuck: among the many Shakespearean words that have passed out of use are “unsisting” (unhelpful), “immoment” (trifling), “cadent” (falling) and the frankly awful “plantage” (vegetation). Lucky escape.
5.莎士比亚创造了大约1700个新英语词汇，他最成功的发明包括addiction”, “lacklustre”, “priceless” and “mountaineer”。但不是所有的都留下来了：很多莎士比亚创造的词汇现在已经不用了，比如unsisting” (unhelpful), “immoment” (trifling), “cadent” (falling)，还有十分直白的“plantage” (vegetation)。真是幸运的漏网。
