来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第1集 第1集》

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  that if the king could cure you by touching you--
  就是国王的碰触能治愈疾病
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  excuse me for touching you. If you had scrophula,
  不好意思我得碰你一下 如果你得了瘰疬
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  which was sort of a degenerative disease--
  一种不断恶化得病
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  it's hard to find people who have scrophula anymore--
  现在一般没人得瘰疬了
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  the king could touch the person and cure it,
  国王只要碰一下就能给治好
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  and it became part of sort of the popular culture of royalty.
  然后这就成了一种王室流行文化了
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  And they tried this in 1825 with disastrous results;
  在1825年他们试了一回结果很糟
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  but, this was his first great book.
  不过 这是他的处女作
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  And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along,
  在他五十五的时候开始打仗了
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  and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat,
  然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》
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  explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.
  解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了
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  And then he'd been--he was Jewish,
  然后他去了--他是犹太人