so I don't have to scribble on the board

就不用在黑板上写板书了
and you don't have to

你们也不必
try to figure out what it is that's written on the board,

费力弄清我究竟写了些什么
because it's hard to see from here.

因为从你们那里看不清楚黑板
If you were going to point out or to claim

如果想要指明或者提出
that there was a central reason for the New Imperialism,

新帝国主义产生的主要原因
why even Bismarck,

甚至为什么
who described colonies as an albatross around the neck of Germany

将殖民地描述为德国的沉重包袱的俾斯麦
while he gets into the kind of feeding frenzy himself,

自己却狂热地侵吞其他国家的原因
it's been put rather cleverly

原因正如以前
by a guy called Baumgar a long time ago,

一位名叫巴姆伽的智者所言
that it comes down to God, gold, and glory.

一切最终都是为了上帝黄金荣耀