Because English came from two main sources - old French, and old Anglo-Saxon, there is a very large vocabulary of words.(因為英語來出自于兩種主要語言：古法語和OldAnglo-Saxon，它有極為廣泛的詞庫。)

Songwriter and record producer Glen Ballard worked with filmmaker Robert Zemeckis on the upcoming film Beowulf, based on the early Anglo-Saxon saga.(在即將上映的電影中,歌曲作者及專輯制作人格倫.巴拉德與制片人羅伯特.澤梅克基斯進(jìn)行了合作,這部電影是根據(jù)盎格魯撒克遜人的傳奇改編的.)

The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only.(英格蘭盎格魯-撒克遜的男女通常只有一個名字。)

UBS excepted, Switzerland did not indulge in an Anglo-Saxon-style speculative boom over the past decade. But it is suffering nevertheless.(瑞銀（UBS）除外，過去十年里，瑞士并沒有從盎格魯-撒克遜式的投機熱潮中受益，可現(xiàn)在仍受到連累，苦不堪言。)

"Listen, this is a special approach in Anglo-Saxon countries," he said.(“聽著，這是盎格魯-撒克遜國家的特色，”他說。)

All this meant that growth in consumer credit regularly outstripped growth in GDP in the Anglo-Saxon countries and saving ratios fell to historic lows.(所有這些意味著，消費貸款的規(guī)律增長，已經(jīng)超過了英國gdp的增長，而且存款利率掉到歷史最低點。)

Which is just the sort of meaningless drivel that will make this new economic power fit right in with the business supremos of the Anglo-Saxon world.(憑著這類毫無意義的廢話，這個新興經(jīng)濟(jì)大國與盎格魯撒克遜世界的商業(yè)巨擘們將會很合得來。)

For those farther down the ladder, French companies are hierarchical, holding no truck with Anglo-Saxon notions of “empowerment”.(對于處在公司底層的員工來說，法國公司是分等級的，但不同于盎格魯撒克遜人所謂的“授權(quán)”。)

Unlike their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, German workers might claw back the recent rise in food and fuel.(和他們央格魯撒克遜的伙伴們不一樣，德國工人也許會追回近來食物能源的漲價。)

By the seventh century, the word teon had become interchangeable with the tachund or hund of the Anglo-Saxon language, and so 100 was denoted as hund teontig, or ten times ten.(到了7世紀(jì)，“teon”這個詞就已經(jīng)可以與安格魯-撒克遜語言中的“tachund”或“hund”互換了，因此100可以用“hundteontig”或“tentimesten”來表示。)