Norman French
常见例句
- The word pearl comes to English from Latin through Norman French, that’s for sure.
单词pearl先是从拉丁语,经由诺曼法语,最后进入英语的。 对于这一点,人们毋庸置疑。 - From Brittany especially, the new Germanic nation of Franks, and later the Norman French, recruited wandering poets called troubadours.
从布列塔尼特别是新的日耳曼民族的法兰克人,以及后来的诺曼法语,招募流浪行吟诗人称为诗人。 - Although the invading Norman French became the rulers of the land, and French became the language of government and law in England, the English people stubbornly refused to give up their own language.
尽管入侵的诺曼法国人成为这个国家的统治者,且法语也跃升为英国政府和法律界的专用语言,英国人却执拗地不肯放弃他们自己的语言。 - It was written in the language of the people. The rulers of Britain at that time still spoke the Norman French they brought with them in ten sixty-six.
- Slowly,Norman French was used less and less until it disappeared.
- But new ones were constantly being added, at that time mostly from Norman French.
FORBES: May Stocks Grow Like Our Language - In 1066, the Norman invasion established French as the language of government, but it did not dislodge English.
NEWYORKER: Globish For Beginners - The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
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