1. *burg- / *bourg- 'protect, fortress' (whence also bury), a variant of *berg- (source of English barrow 'mound' and German berg 'mountain') and *borg- (source of English borrow).
2. *burg- / *bourg- meaning began to change from 'fortress', through 'fortified town', to simply 'town'.
3. *burg- + -ess (variant of French suffix -eis, or contracted from Latin suffix -ensis) => burgess.
4. => citizen of a borough.

1. In 1998 Burgess and Fuller discuss the problem again and showed the more inclusive result.

1998年Burgess和Fuller又 进一步证明了此问题,并得到了更广泛的结果.

2. " Well , Burgess deserves it -- he will never get another congregation here.

" 可伯杰斯遭人恨是活该呀 -- 在这块地方,他再也别想有人听他布道了.

3. There was another puzzled man, too -- the Rev. Mr. Burgess.

还有一个人百思不得其解 -- 这就是伯杰斯牧师.

4. You know the thing that was charged against Burgess years ago.

你们都知道好多年以前大家怪罪伯杰斯的那件事.

5. Burgess was taxed with this and stoutly denied it.

伯杰斯为此受到了责难,但是他自己坚决否认有这回事.