来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国第1集第1集》

nobody could have anticipated

没人能料到
that all these empires would collapse.

那些帝国会分崩离析
Anti-Semitism was out there before that,

反犹主义在那之前就有了
in Germany and France, as you'll see with the Dreyfus Affair,

在德国和法国比如德福雷斯事件
all sorts of places; but, World War One transformed Hitler

各种地方但是一战把希特勒
from a man who hated social democrats, who hated socialists,

从一个痛恨社会民主党痛恨社会党人
into a man obsessed with killing Jews.

变成一个疯狂的犹太杀手
World War One has an enormous

一战对人们如何
impact on the way people viewed themselves,

看待自己产生巨大的影响
in France and everywhere;

在法国和其他所有地方
everybody knew people who died in the war.

每个人都有认识的人在战争中死去
It was the defining experience of the twentieth century,

这是20世纪人们所具有的共同经历