But back in the Germanic languages that the word grew out of, it had been two words that roughly translate as “loaf warden.”
然而，当人们将这个单词一直追溯到其源头——日耳曼语族——的时候，就会发现，它原来是一个由两个词所构成的词组，大概有“面包管理员”（loaf warden）的意思。
In 1848, a century before Orwell's article, the renowned linguist August Schleicher dismissed the English of his day as the most 'ground-down' of all the Germanic languages.
1848年，比奥威尔的文章早整整一个世纪的时候，著名的语言学家奥古斯特·施莱歇尔把他所在时代的英语不屑地贬为全部日耳曼语言中最“败坏”的一种。
English is a member of the Germanic group of languages.
英语是日耳曼语系中的一种语言。
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