十分钟了解英语历史。第一章，盎格鲁撒克逊人或发生在朱特人的任何事。

The English language begins with the phrase ‘Up Yours Caesar!’ as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in, tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons – who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes – who didn’t. 

英语以这句话开头，去你的凯撒！当罗马人离开英国，大量日耳曼部落开始涌入。例如盎格鲁和撒克逊人。他们留下这个盎格鲁撒克逊人的叫法。以及没留下痕迹的朱特人。

The Romans left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon vocab was much more useful as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like ‘house’, ‘woman’, ‘loaf’ and ‘werewolf’. 

罗马人留下了一些笔直的道路，但是关于拉丁语的不多。盎格鲁撒克逊的语汇更有帮助因为他们都是关于简单的日常用语，像房子，女人，面包，狼人。

Four of our days of the week - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods, but they didn’t bother with Saturday, Sunday and Monday as they had all gone off for a long weekend.

我们一周的四天，周二，周三，周四和周五提名为祭拜盎格鲁撒克逊的上帝的日子。但是周六，周日和周一并不打扰人们的正常生活，因为人们都出去度假了。

While they were away, Christian missionaries stole in bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and more Latin. Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words like ‘martyr’, ‘bishop’ and ‘font’.

当他们离开的时候，基督教传教士潜进了，带着传单小册子。为了慈善汇款和更多的拉丁语。基督教给当地人带来震动，让他们乐于接受极具表现力的新词，比如殉道者，主教，洗礼盆。

Along came the Vikings, with their action-man words like ‘drag’, ‘ransack’, ‘thrust’ and ‘die’, and a love of pickled herring. They may have raped and pillaged but there were also into ‘give’ and ‘take’ – two of around 2000 words that they gave English, as well as the phrase ‘watch out for that man with the enormous axe.’

同时到来的还有北欧海盗说着的话，比如拖，彻底搜索，刺，死亡，喜欢腌制鲱鱼。他们可能强奸或抢劫，但是也会喜欢给予和索取。这是他们带来的2000个词汇中的两个，还有句话，他们挥舞着巨大的斧头说，小心一点！