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Middle English
中古英語
Middle English is the name given to the English used from around the 12th to the 15th century.
中古英語這個名詞是指大約12世紀至15世紀期間所使用的英語。
Many things played a part in the development of this new type of English.
很多因素使得英語發展成這種新的類型。
The most important contribution was from the Normans, a French-speaking people who defeated England and took control of the country in 1066.
最大的貢獻來自于講法語的諾曼人，他們于1066年擊敗英格蘭并控制了這個國家。
However, the Norman Conquest did not affect English as much as the Angles and the Saxons' vitory about 600 years earlier, which led to Old English replacing Celtic.
然而，諾曼征服隊英語的影響并不及約600年前盎格魯人和撒克遜人的勝利對英語的影響，那場勝利導致古英語代替了凱爾特語。
Even though the Normans spoke French for the entire 250 years they ruled England, French did not replace English as the first language.
可是，盡管諾曼人說法語，在其統治英國的250年間，法語卻沒有取代英語而成為英國的第一語言。
On the other hand, the English language did borrow many words from French.
另一方面，英語語言確實從法語中借了不少的詞匯。
This resulted in even more words with similar meanings, such as answer (from Old English) and reply (from Old French).
這種影響讓英語產生了更多意思相近的詞對，如answer（源自古英語）和reply（源自古法語）。
