来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第16集》

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  and just as Czar Nicholas II,
  沙皇尼古拉斯二世
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  about whom we'll come back and discuss one day,
  我们以后会自己讲这个人
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  he signs the mobilization order.
  也正在签署动员令
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  And mobilization, for reasons I'll come back to,
  而战争动员基本就等同于宣战了
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  is tantamount to an act of war.
  个中缘由我一会儿来讲
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  He's dashing off letters to his dearest cousin Willie.
  他正给他最亲的表兄威利写信
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  And Willie is writing back to "My Dear Cousin nicky."
  而威利也正给他"最亲爱的尼哥"回信
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  These people are related.
  这些人是亲戚
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  They're cousins.
  他们是表兄弟
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  But international circumstances,
  而国际环境
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  and the tensions over the Balkans,
  以及巴尔干的紧张局势
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  and French fears of Germany,
  还有法国对德国的恐惧