然而，当人们将这个单词一直追溯到其源头——日耳曼语族——的时候，就会发现，它原来是一个由两个词所构成的词组，大概有“面包管理员”（loaf warden）的意思。

But back in the Germanic languages that the word grew out of, it had been two words that roughly translate as “loaf warden.”

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然而，当人们将这个单词一直追溯到其源头——日耳曼语族——的时候，就会发现，它原来是一个由两个词所构成的词组，大概有“面包管理员”（loaf warden）的意思。

But back in the Germanic languages that the word grew out of, it had been two words that roughly translate as “loaf warden.”

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