来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第18集 第18集》

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  All this business and the fall of France
  这些和法国的衰败
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  and the origins of World War One
  以及一战的起因
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  have to be seen in the context of--World War One,
  都必须放在一战的背景下来看
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  there was a sense that if-- after the war there was this view
  战后出现了一种观点
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  that wars were started by evil people in high places
  即一群身居高位的坏人和其他人勾结
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  who were doing evil deeds in conjunction with other people.
  犯下种种恶行 从而催生出一战
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  And Germany signed on the dotted line, forced to do so,
  德国被迫在投降书上签字
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  saying they had been responsible for World War One.
  表明他们才是一战的发起者
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  And so there was a strong feeling that Wilson and others had
  于是威尔逊和其他人坚决认为
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  that if you had an apparatus like a League of Nations
  如果你有国际联盟这样的后盾
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  and if you had open covenants that everything would be okay,
  还签署了和平条款
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  nobody would ever want to have another war again.
  那么没人会想再发动战争