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.

假如當時教皇沒有挽救西羅馬帝國，那么帝國就全完了，

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.

因為皇帝已經(jīng)完全軟弱無力?，F(xiàn)在實際上只有軍隊尚還占著統(tǒng)治地位，

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

這些軍隊終于覺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上了日耳曼人的國王。