Norman Conquest

基本解釋

If alien words could kill, English might not have survived the Norman conquest.
如果外來詞能有殺傷力，英語就不會在諾曼征服中幸存下來了。
By contrast, from the time of the Norman conquest, the English monarchy had succeeded in establishing a strong, uniform, and centralized system of justice.
反觀英國，自諾曼征服時起，英國王室就成功地建立了一套強大、統(tǒng)一和集中的司法躰系。
It turns up in written English circa 1220 so it came with the French of the Norman Conquest which was built on Latin.
大約1220年它在書麪英語中出現(xiàn)，它伴隨著在諾爾曼征服中根植於拉丁文中的法語産生。

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

the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans, following the Battle of Hastings (1066) (1066)