美国英语自形成至今,仅有短短近四百年的发展历程,但却逐渐从其母体英国英语中脱颖而出,并形成了许多自身的特点。本文将在美国特有的历史发展背景的框架中,从吸收外来语以及创造新词汇两大方面来浅析美国英语词汇的演变和发展。 Since the formation of American English, only a short period of nearly four hundred years of development, but gradually come to the fore from its parent British English, and formed many of its own characteristics. This essay will analyze the evolution and development of American English vocabulary from the two aspects of absorbing loanwords and creating new words in the context of the unique historical development of the United States.