What the Franks were doing was not unusual.

法兰克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.

们是法兰克的朋——弗兰克先生。 范佩尔斯夫们唯一的孩子，15 岁的彼得。

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

但一上台就开始让像法兰克样的德国犹太的生活更加艰难。

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

法兰克是罗马的同军，因此们伏击并摧毁了汪达尔军队，杀死了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、波兰法兰克夷平的城市，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的语言，在它诞生的时候， 实际上指的是所有西欧，而不仅仅是生活在现在法国境内的。