来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国第1集第1集》

they were dead, and your life expectancy wasn't very good,

他们都死了他们的寿命预期也不是很好
because of foolish military decisions,

因为一些愚蠢的军事决策
because of a war that ended

因为这场战争最后成了
up being the war fought in which no one,

一场没有任何人
outside of a few people who had seen the Russo-

除了那些在满洲参加过
Japanese War around Muckton, could have ever imagined.

日俄战争的人以外没有人能想像得出来的
The finest, some of the finest books on any topic are those--

最好的那些在任何主题中--
of history--are those on World War One,

历史范畴内最好的书总是关于一战的
the great war in modern memory of the British--

现代英国人对大战的记忆--
of Siegfried Sassoon, about Siegfried Sassoon,

齐格菲·沙宣的记忆关于齐格菲·沙宣
and Wilfred Owen whose mother got the news that he'd been

和维尔福雷德·欧文的母亲在停战日那天
killed on the day of the armistice.

接到他的阵亡通知书的故事