But we cannot change that history, nor is it currently conceivable how we could arrange for some other language to replace the growing universality of English.

但是我们无法改变历史，我们也无法想象怎么去用其他语言替代现如今英语的霸主地位。

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On the History Channel was a French-language documentary about the Vietnam War, which had English subtitles that were partly obscuredby a further set of subtitles in Bulgarian.

历史频道有一部关于越战的法语纪录片，有英文字幕，但部分被又加上去的保加利亚字幕弄得模糊不清。

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The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD.

英语真正的历史应该从公元5世纪时入侵英国的三个日耳曼部落说起。

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"It was a question of seeing a live game, " said Redshaw, the author of an English-language history of the club.

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An unfortunate consequence of relying on English-language documents is that the local population appears for much of this history as a series of administrative inconveniences: a dock strike here, a cholera epidemic there, that kind of thing.

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