世界小史 第194期:日耳曼公主

Only two years later, in 453, Attila married a German princess and died on the same night.

此后不久阿提拉便死了，死于453年，死在他與一位日耳曼公主成婚的那一天。

Had the Pope not saved the Roman Empire of the West on that occasion it would have ceased to exist.

假如當(dāng)時(shí)教皇沒(méi)有挽救西羅馬帝國(guó)，那么帝國(guó)就全完了，

For by this time the emperors had lost all authority, and such power as remained was in the hands of the soldiers, most of whom were Germans.

因?yàn)榛实垡呀?jīng)完全軟弱無(wú)力。現(xiàn)在實(shí)際上只有軍隊(duì)尚還占著統(tǒng)治地位，

The day came when the soldiers found that they could do without an emperor, so they decided to depose him.

這些軍隊(duì)終于覺(jué)得這位皇帝純屬多余，于是決定推翻他

The last Roman emperor had a rather remarkable name: Romulus Augustulus.

羅馬末代皇帝有一個(gè)奇怪的名字，他叫羅慕洛.奧古斯都。

It is a curious coincidence that Rome's founder and first king was called Romulus and the first Roman emperor was the Emperor Augustus.

你想想，第一位羅馬國(guó)王，羅馬的建立者，叫羅慕洛;第一位羅馬皇帝叫奧古斯都。

Romulus Augustulus, the last one, was deposed in 476.

末代皇帝羅慕洛.奧古斯都在476年被推翻。

In his place, a German general called Odoacer proclaimed himself king of the Germans in Italy.

一位日耳曼統(tǒng)帥奧多亞塞，在他之后使自己在意大利當(dāng)上了日耳曼人的國(guó)王。