Originally, it was a Germanic language and then after the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was an enormous influx of French words.

最初，它是日耳曼语，而在1066年诺曼征服之后，大量法语词汇涌入（英语）。

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Most Latinate English words appeared with the French of the Norman Conquest of 1066 or appeared even later, introduced by people thinking they were smart to drop Latin based words into their writing.

大多数基于拉丁语的英语单词是在1066年诺曼征服时的法语中出现的，有些则出现得更晚，它们是由那些自以为在文章里插上几个基于拉丁文的单词就很有文化的人们带进来的。

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Bill Bryson calls the Norman conquest of 1066 the "final cataclysm which awaited the English language."

比尔·布赖森把1066年诺曼人对英国的征服叫做“英语最后的大变革”。

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There is further evidence of re-colonisation following the Norman Conquest of 1066.

BBC: The many ages of Dartmoor

The 70m (230ft) long tapestry was commissioned by William the Conqueror's half-brother, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings.

BBC: Bayeux Tapestry 'made by same people in same place'

The second is the illusion of national self-containment, the belief that, since the Norman Conquest, English experience has unfolded within its own unique parameters, separating it radically from the continent.

ECONOMIST: British history