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The History of English in Ten Minutes. Chapter 1. Anglo-Saxon or whatever happened to the Jutes. 十分钟了解英语历史。第一章，盎格鲁撒克逊人或曰朱特人发生什么了。 1 盎格鲁撒克逊人 The English language begins with the phrase ‘Up Yours Caesar!’ as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes started flooding in, tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons – who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes – who didn’t. 当罗马人离开英国，大量日耳曼部落开始涌入，包括盎格鲁人和撒克逊人（他们留下了“盎格鲁撒克逊”这个称呼），以及朱特人（没有留下什么痕迹），从此英语中有了这样的短语：“去你的凯撒！” The Romans left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon vocal was much more useful as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like ‘house’, ‘woman’, ‘loaf’ and ‘werewolf’. 罗马人留下了一些笔直的道路，但没留下多少拉丁语。盎格鲁撒克逊的语汇更有用，因为主要是关于日常生活的词，比如“房子”，“女人”，“面包”和“狼人”。 Four of our days of the week - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods, but they didn’t bother with Saturday, Sunday and Monday as they had all gone off for a long weekend. 一周的四天——周二，周三，周四和周五的命名都是为了纪念盎格鲁撒克逊的神明。但是周六，周日和周一并没受到影响，因为人们都出发去度过漫长的周末了。 While they were away, Christian missionaries stole in bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and more Latin. Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words like ‘martyr’, ‘bishop’ and ‘font’. 当他们离开的时候，基督教传教士溜了进来，随身带来了义卖传单和更多的拉丁语。基督教在当地轰动一时，让他们乐于接受时髦的新词，比如“殉道者”，“主教”和“洗礼盆”。 Along came the Vikings, with their action-man words like ‘drag’, ‘ransack’, ‘thrust’ and ‘die’. They may have raped and pillaged but they were also into ‘give’ and ‘take’ – two of around 2000 words that they gave English, as well as the phrase ‘watch out for that man with the enormous axe.’ 同时到来的还有北欧海盗，以及他们雷厉风行的词汇，比如“拖”，“掠夺”，“刺”，“死亡”。他们可能奸淫掳掠过，但他们同样热衷于“给予”和“索取”——这是他们带到英语中的约2000个词汇中的2个。他们带来的还有这个习语：“小心挥舞着巨大斧头的人！” 第二章，诺曼人入侵或曰原谅我的英语 1066.?True?to?his?name,?William?the?Conqueror?invades?England,?bringing?new?concepts?fromacross?the?channel,?like?the?French?language,?the?Doomsday?Book?and?the?duty-f