Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.

果真，《牛津英语词典》将mess一词的来源追溯至盎格鲁-诺曼语和之前的古法语。

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Even the name has an ancient pedigree - it is derived from both the old French word for crust (crouste), and the Anglo-Norman ‘crustarde’, which meant a tart or pie with a crust.

甚至连“蛋挞”这一名字也有着古老的渊源——“蛋挞”来源于“酥皮”（crust）的法语词“crouste”和盎格鲁诺尔曼语词“crustarde”，“crustarde”意思是带酥皮的蔬菜、水果或肉馅饼。

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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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