Vandal

(noun.) someone who willfully destroys or defaces property.

(noun.) a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455.

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• He was also urged to attack the Eastern empire by Genseric the Vandal, who was faced by an alliance of the Western and Eastern emperors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Of the Vandal kingdom in Africa we have already written; and Italy, still in its population and habits Roman, came under the rule of the Ostrogoths. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The whole Vandal nation, men, women, and children, that came from Spain to Africa, for example, did not number more than eighty thousand souls. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Vandal kingdom was recovered in 534; the Goths were expelled from Italy in 553. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At the time of its greatest extent (477) this Vandal kingdom included also Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balearic Isles, as well as much of North Africa. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Manifestly the Vandals came in as a positive relief to such a system. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Fresh Vandals, more Goths, Alans, Suevi, marched freely westward, living upon the country. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As we have told, he reconquered the African province from the Vandals and most of Italy from the Goths. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Instead, we see the Vandals becoming masters of the western Mediterranean without so much as a naval battle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Where the trees were sparse and the foliage was thin, the same cheerful band of vandals marked the spots E to indicate that there it would be easy to run the wires. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In Portugal and north of the Vandals in Spain were Visigoths and Suevi. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the latter par t of the fourth century the Roman Empire had been overrun by the Visigot hs, the Vandals, the Huns, the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, and other barbarians. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The Visigoths (or West Goths) followed the example of the Vandals, and made arrangements to cross the Danube into Roman territory. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was while the Vandals were still in Africa that a great leader, Attila, arose among the Huns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

整理:怀亚特