The series of conflicts in the 1640s , known collectively as the english civil war , was the first in the british isles that reflected this new reality 这一现实在不列颠岛上1640年代中的一系列冲突中得到了第一次的体现。
Old english , or anglo - saxon , was a mix of the dialects brought from the european continent to britain by some old germanic tribes , the angles , the saxons , the jutes and the frisians 古英语，也叫盎格鲁撒克逊语，是欧洲大陆一些古日耳曼部族(盎格尔人、撒克逊人、朱特人和弗里斯人)陆续迁移到不列颠岛，带来的各自的方言融合而成的语言。
It was quite on a par with the quixotic idea in certain quarters that in a hundred million years the coal seam of the sister island would be played out and if , as time went on , that turned out to be how the cat jumped all he could personally say on the matter was that as a host of contingencies , equally relevant to the issue , might occur ere then it was highly advisable in the interim to try to make the most of both countries , even though poles apart 这种见解就跟一部分人所持的那种再过一亿年，爱尔兰岛的姊妹岛不列颠岛的煤层就将被挖掘一空这一堂吉诃德式的看法如出一辙。随着时间的推移，即便形势的发展果如所料，关于这个问题他个人至多也只能说：在这之前会接连发生无数偶然事件，对于引发这一结局将同样有着关连尽管两国之间的分歧大得简直是南辕北辙，眼下总还是以竭力相互利用为宜。
