What the Franks were doing was not unusual.

法所作所为并不罕见。

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

他们是法朋友——弗先生。 范佩尔斯夫和他们唯一孩子，15 岁彼得。

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

但他一上台就开始让像法德国犹太生活更加艰难。

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

法是罗马盟友或同盟军，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、波和法夷平他城市，哈拉尔德通过皈依基督教避免了一场潜在战争。

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 字面意思是法语言，在它诞生时候， 实际上指是所有西欧，而不仅仅是生活在现在法国境内。