Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words.

最初，它是日耳曼语，而在1066年诺曼征服之后，大量法语词汇涌入（英语）。

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The Norman Conquest brought a new ruling class to Anglo-Saxon England and a new language to the culture for the next 300 years - Norman French.

诺曼底人给昂贵路-萨克逊统治的英格兰带来了一个新的统治阶层，也给这个国家随后300年的文化带来了一种新的语言，即诺曼底法语。

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Bill Bryson calls the Norman conquest of 1066 the "final cataclysm which awaited the English language."

比尔·布赖森把1066年诺曼人对英国的征服叫做“英语最后的大变革”。

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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.

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In 1066, the Norman invasion established French as the language of government, but it did not dislodge English.

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Two centuries of Norman rule in England after 1066 significantly changed the Germanic grammar and dumped a large amount of French vocabulary into the language.

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