The French have big forts, all along here,

法国有很多大型要塞一直在这里
here and there and everywhere,

这里还有那里到处都是
the way-- and you know they're going to want to move immediately

你们知道用这种方式他们将可以快速地转移
into Alsace-Lorraine--more about this again later.

到阿尔萨斯洛林地区后面还有更多关于这些
So, the way to do it, and not for the last time,

因此用这样的方式来做不是最后一次
they are willing to violate Belgian neutrality, and Dutch neutrality,

他们很乐意侵犯比利时和荷兰的中立立场
though that disappears from the plan.

虽然这些在计划中不存在
The Schlieffen Plan, which I'll come back to, written in 1905,

施里芬计划我回过来会讲到于 1905年提出
is predicated on the fact that

它是基于这样一个事实
the French are going to invade Alsace-Lorraine,

法国将入侵阿尔萨斯洛林
and so you'll just sweep into a neutral country,

他们将借道一个中立国
Belgium, neutral since 1831.

自1831年一直中立的比利时