But the most important reason is that French investment in Russia

但最重要的原因是十九世纪八九十年代
increases dramatically in the 1880s and 1890s.

法国在俄国不断增长的投资
And that France seeks an ally against Germany

并且法国正在寻求一个对付德国的同盟军
and that relations between Russia and Germany,

而此时的俄德关系已经很明显
and this is already obvious, you've already discerned this,

你肯定已经能领悟到了
are going to deteriorate because of this tender relationship

将会因为奥匈帝国和德国对巴尔干的态度
between Austria-Hungary and Germany over the Balkans.

而急剧恶化
In the very end, one of the ludicrous aspects of this whole damn thing

最终这堆破事儿荒谬的一方面就是
is that just as they're about to go to war,

正当他们准备开战时
and just as Czar Nicholas II,

沙皇尼古拉斯二世
about whom we'll come back and discuss one day,

我们以后会自己讲这个人
he signs the mobilization order.

也正在签署动员令