来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第20集第20集》

a democratic national assembly and to gain their approval.

理解并支持这样的决策
The execution of this decision is a strategic deed that

这一决策的执行是一次战略行为
can be compared favorably with any victory.

它足以媲美任何一次胜利
Take that, critics.

接受这点吧批评家们
Delbruck was pulling no punches

德尔布吕克知无不言言无不尽
and if you said he was a bum I say he was the greatest."

你们说他庸碌无为我却说他无比伟大
Delbruck tries to bolster his case by

德尔布吕克为了突显伯里克利的丰功伟绩
comparing Pericles with Frederick the Great,

把他比作了腓特烈大帝
king of Prussia in the eighteenth century.

十八世纪的普鲁士国王
During the seven years' war Frederick applied

在腓特烈大帝指挥的七年战争中
what Delbruck calls a strategy of exhaustion;

他采用了德尔布吕克所称的疲劳战术
instead of the strategy of annihilation

来代替歼灭战