What the Franks were doing was not unusual.

法兰克人的所作所为并不罕见。

They were friends of the Franks—Mr. and Mrs. Van Pels and their only child, fifteen-year-old Peter.

他们是法兰克人的朋友——弗兰克先。 范佩尔斯夫人和他们唯一的孩子，15 岁的彼得。

But as soon as he came to power he started making life harder for German Jews like the Franks.

但他一开始让像法兰克人样的德国犹太人的加艰难。

The Franks were Roman allies or foederati, so they ambushed and laid  waste to the Vandal army, killing their king, Godigisel.

法兰克人是罗马的盟友或同盟军，因此他们伏击并摧毁了汪达尔军队，杀死了他们的国王戈迪吉塞尔。

Otto II had threatened to bring Germans, Poles,   and Franks to raze his cities, and by converting, Harald averted a potential war.

奥托二世曾威胁要让德国人、波兰人和法兰克人夷平他的城市，哈拉尔德通过皈依基督教避免了一场潜在的战争。

Now, lingua franca literally means language of the Franks, which at the time of its creation, really referred to all Western Europeans, not just the people who live in what is now France.

现在， lingua franca 的字面意思是法兰克人的语言，在它诞的时候， 实际指的是所有西欧人，而不仅仅是在现在法国境内的人。