美国文献协会是一个研究古希腊和古罗马语言、文学、文明的古典文献的主要学术机构。

The American Philological Association is the principal learned society for classical studies of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.

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摩尔达维亚人和罗马尼亚人使用一种共同的语言。

Moldavians and Romanians share a common language.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

400多年前，英语从法语中吸收了class这个单词，那个时候，希腊和罗马语被看成是“原初的语言”(the original)，所以也带上了“第一”的含义。

When English adopted the word class from French around 400 years ago Greek and Roman were seen as "the original" languages and so were tagged with this "first" meaning.

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So the Romans didn't try to make the East Roman, in that sense, culturally, nor did they try to change the language.

所以罗马人没有强迫东方罗马化，文化上没有，语言上也没有。

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