The Celtic language of the ancient Britons. 古不列颠语古不列颠人的凯尔特语
A Celtic idiom. 凯尔特人的惯用语
celtic
[ noun ]
a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
relating to or characteristic of the Celts
<adj.pert>
Celtic \Celt"ic\ (s[e^]lt"[i^]k; k[e^]lt"[i^]k), a. [L. Celticus, Gr. Keltiko`s. See {Celt}.] Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue. [Written also {Keltic}.]
Celtic \Celt"ic\, n. The language of the Celts.
Note: The remains of the old Celtic language are found in the Gaelic, the Erse or Irish; the Manx, and the Welsh and its cognate dialects Cornish and Bas Breton.
His octet Twilight Music, plainer still on the surface, makes charming play with ancient Celtic jigs, in which Nona Lidell's fiddle struck all the right notes.
American country music in general finds its strongest following in the U.K. in the Celtic regions.
There is plenty to say about the dangers of one-party rule, the systematic destruction of local government, the emergence of the patronage state as powerful appointed bodies proliferate and, indeed, Celtic nationalisms.
George Moore also appears as an early supporter and then a dissenter. Not all of Yeats's heroines at this time came out of Celtic mythology.
The worst and most unlikely outcome of devolution would be the eventual choice of Baltic-style independence by all three Celtic states.
About 70% of Celtic Life's business is in group insurance and about 30% in credit insurance.
They pull out all the stops on a Celtic setting of Julie Gold's "From a Distance," bringing in Highland pipes, bodhran and digeridoo.
The star will be the creation of a science park, Imperial Park, managed by and using the back-up of London University's Imperial College. The science park is part of a larger development, Celtic Lakes, which will provide around 2m sq ft of prime space.
So far its efforts have proved fruitless. The government appears to be holding out in the hope that an important oil discovery in the Celtic Sea - on the shore of which the refinery is located -could help to justify the investment.
Sometimes groups of circles seem to resemble giant crucifixes and Celtic crosses stretching across the undulating hills.
Having established that croquet is British, the rest may join in. There has been a spirited attempt to claim that the word croquet is of Irish origin, deriving from the Celtic cluiche (pronounced cloo-ic-ee).
Some believe the successful bidders may have offered too much and risk running into financial difficulties. Mr Eggar said Celtic would pay Pounds 88.4m on completion of the south Wales deal.
I needed Irish whimsy and soft Celtic twilight. Hibernian at-one-ness is not achieved just like that.
The question was far from trivial, for it represented the triumph of Rome over the practices, and the calendar, of the Celtic Christian church.
His officials pointed out that Spain had never traditionally fished in the Irish Sea and Bristol Channel anyway. Mr Waldegrave said: 'I would have liked to have (kept) the Celtic Sea as well.'
He incorporates rock, jazz, classical, Celtic and country and fuses them into a sound that somehow manages to be both manic and sweetly lyrical.
Such is Celtic popularity that the team's owners, in a public offering last December, sold for $48.1 million 40% of a franchise they bought for $15 million in 1983.
Ever since the British Celts arrived in the 5th century, the French influence has been clawing and creeping westward. But here, at a safe distance from Paris, the maestros perform a friendly Celtic combination, stopping only occasionally to down a demi.
In return, the theater lobby sells tapes of his newest recording, "Uaithne," featuring Fiona Davidson on the clairschach, a wire-strung harp traditional out here in the Celtic fringe.
The distinctive combination of hard-driving rhythm and aching melody stands a thousand miles closer to the Celtic heart than the "green trash" of the St. Patrick's Day beer bust.
The manner in which he learnt to speak Irish, gave himself a Celtic name and completely reconstructed his identity, claiming to have been born in Cork, is material for a wonderful play he never wrote.
ITV's imported National Geographic series showing macho feats of endurance, Voyager, today tells the story of a journey by eight young men in an open boat, a replica of a 12th century Celtic galley.
The 10.3 million Portuguese, descended of Celtic, Roman and Moorish conquerors, perhaps have come to terms with the loss of the globe-circling empire that their famous explorers discovered five centuries ago.