英语源于日尔曼语系，通过引入法语的善战的法国诺曼第人，以及使用拉丁语的中世纪学者和神职人员的传播得以逐渐扩大。
Basically Germanic, it was expanded by the conquering Normans, who introduced French, and the medieval scholars and clergy, who used Latin.
至于他个人参与第二次世界大战，因为诺曼第登陆成功，赢得一枚铜星勋章，和一份采访德军战俘的工作。
His own war led to a bronze star won in Normandy and a job interviewing defeated Germans.
英语词汇中约有三万词汇来自诺曼第法语，在语法上也受到后者的影响。
About 30,000 of the English vocabulary derives from Norman French, and the English grammar is influenced by the latter.
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