The percentage of the population that spoke German is seventy-seven percent.

说德语的人占总人口的77%
The population that spoke French as their major language

而以法语作为主要语言的人
was twelve percent.

只有12%
There was some bilingualism, but not a whole lot, actually,

当中还有一些人是用双语当然并不多
and ten percent sort of neither,

有10%的人说德法以外的其他语言
in that they were probably more or less perfectly bilingual

当地由于通婚或多或少
because of intermarriage.

还会有一些熟练使用双语的人
So, when the Germans come in after 1871,

所以当1871年德国占领此地后
they are better than what the French did after World War I.

他们的所作所为比一战后法国的做法要好
The French try to just rip German out

法国当局想以语言为标志
as a language of instruction.

把德国遗留下来的印记彻底清除
Get rid of all the street signs in German.

他们把大街上的德语路标全部拆掉