1·Germanic generals sometimes used their military power to advance their own and their tribes' interests.
日耳曼将军们有时会利用他们的军事力量来为自身和部族获取更多利益。
2·Western emperors after Theodosius were unable to emphasize their civilian role because of their need to rely on the protection of Germanic generals loyal to them.
狄奥多西之后的西方皇帝无法强调他们的公民角色，因为他们需要依赖于对他们忠诚的日耳曼将军的保护。
3·Because of the climate and the Germanic origins of many of its early people, the UK has been a traditionally beer drinking rather than a wine drinking country.
由于气候和日耳曼起源及其早期的许多人，英国一直是传统上喝啤酒，而不是葡萄酒的饮用国。
4·The gradual spread of Germanic tribes from southern Russia to England, and thence to San Francisco, had similar motives.
日耳曼部族从俄罗斯的南部渐渐扩散到英格兰，最后到旧金山，也是出于相同的动机。
5·No one knows what made the Germanic language branch off from the Indo-European family.
无人知晓什么原因导致了日耳曼语从印欧语系中脱离。
1·English began as one of several obscure languages spoken by illiterate Germanic tribesmen in the mists of northern Europe.
英语起初是北欧一些未受过教育的日尔曼部落人员讲的几种含糊语言中的一种。
2·Ethnically, the Portuguese people are a combination of several ethnicities: pre-Roman Iberian and Celtic tribes with Romans and Germanic tribes.
从族种上看，葡萄牙人综合了几个民族：前罗马伊比利亚族和凯尔特族与罗马族和日尔曼族。
3·New words came with the Germanic tribes -- the Angles, the Saxons, etc. -- that slipped across the North Sea to settle in Britain in the 5th century.
新的词汇随日尔曼部落——盎格鲁、萨克逊等部落——而来， 他们在5世纪的时候越过北海定居在不列颠。
4·Germanic tribal leader who in 476 deposed Romulus Augustulus (reigned 475-476), bringing the Western Roman Empire to an end.
日尔曼部落首领，在476年废黜罗慕罗斯·奥古斯都(475 - 476在位)，结束了西罗马帝国。
5·The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages.
在很多日尔曼语中这个简单的元音出现爆破。
1·But there was a Middle English stut that came before with the same meaning, and that can be traced to Germanic roots.
不过，在此之前，有个中世纪英语单词stut具有同样的含义，而且可以追溯到日耳曼语根源。
2·Frolic first appeared in English in the 16th century and came from Germanic roots.
frolic在16世纪第一次出现在英语中，词根来源于日耳曼语。
3·Margarite was old enough that it or some related word had found itsway into Old English and its Germanic ancestors as meregrot alsomeaning “pearl.”
这可是一个久经风霜的单词。 它——或某个相关的单词——很早以前就进入了古英语，而它的日耳曼语祖先meregrot也有“pearl”的意思。
4·The parent word to rug is reported to be Scandinavian and as such of Germanic extraction.
“rug”的起源，据说是从斯堪的纳维亚语和部分日耳曼语中提取出来的。
5·Fifth century, the Anglo-Saxon invasion, they use the vocabulary of Saxon language belongs to the West Germanic branch of the German vocabulary.
第五世纪，盎格鲁撒克逊人的入侵，他们使用了撒克逊语言的词汇属于西日耳曼语词汇的德国分公司。
1·Icelandic, a North Germanic language, is the main language of Iceland.
冰岛语，北日耳曼语族语言，也是冰岛主要语言。
2·Dutch, and English like the British, German, Dutch belong to the same Indo-European Germanic West Extension.
荷兰语，和英语很像，英、德、荷兰语同属印欧语系日耳曼语族西支。