Shakespeare wrote towards the end of the great vowel shift and marks the start of the early modern English.

莎士比亚在元音大转变即将结束时写作，标志着早期现代英语的开始。

The other early English settlements in North America were much to the north of Virginia, in the present state of Massachusetts.

北美其它早期的英国殖民地多数在弗吉尼亚的北部（现在的马萨诸塞州）。

Today our question involves an expression from early English literature.

今天我们的问题涉及早期英国文学中的一个表达。

Following up is the early Modern English.

接下来是早期的现代英语。

The centre Early English, with a huge portico copied from the Parthenon.

中心是早期英语，有一个从帕特农神庙复制而来的巨大门廊。

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writersChaucer and Shakespeare.

人们在其他作家的作品中也可以读到关于天鹅最后之歌的故事，包括英国早期作家乔叟以及莎士比亚。

The main difference between Early Modern English and Late Modern English is vocabulary.

早期现代英语和晚期现代英语的主要区别在于词汇。

And you see it popping up in early Middle English — not in prose, but in names.

你会看到它出现在早期的中古英语中——不是散文，而是名字。

The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to understand.

最早的英语诗歌是用一种现在很难理解的英语写成的。

Most curiously, before its appearance in early English, there are no clear  traces of the word in any ancestor language.

最奇怪的是， 在这个词出现在早期英语中之前，在任何祖先语言中都没有找到它的明确痕迹。

There were Tories among them, and liberals, and one red, William Owen, a grandson, I think, certainly a descendant, of Robert Owen, the first of the early English socialists.

他们中有保守党和自由主义者，还有一个红色，威廉欧文，我认为，肯定是早期英国社会主义者罗伯特欧文的孙子。

Prior to becoming a state, however, North Carolina was home to some of the earliest English colonies in the Americas, including the lost colony of Roanoke, whose inhabitants all mysteriously vanished some time between 1587 and 1590.

在成为州之前，北卡罗来纳州是美国最早的英国殖民地，其中还包括消失的殖民地罗阿诺克，那里的居民在1587年到1590年的某个时间段，全部神秘消失了。