--my friend Charles Keith just finished a dissertation

我的朋友查尔斯·基斯刚写完一篇论文
on Catholic Vietnam in the 1920s--

关于20世纪20年代的越南天主教
most of those priests in areas such as Africa were there

其他地区的大部分牧师比如非洲的
to tend to the religious needs of the European communities.

更倾向于满足欧洲人团体的宗教需求
It was particularly true of, for example,

比如说尤为明显的是
Lutheran ministers in German Southwest Africa and in other places.

非洲西南部和其他地方的德国路德派牧师
The drive to convert peoples to organized European religions

他们劝人皈依有组织的欧洲宗教的动力
was probably greatest,

大概是强大的
and the Vietnam case is a very good one,

越南是个极好的例子
and the role of the Catholic Church

基督教会在
is extremely interesting in Vietnam

越南民族主义及其兴起中
and the origins of Vietnamese nationalism.

扮演了很有趣的角色