来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第2集 第2集》

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  it's one-third the size of London at this same time,
  它仅仅相当于
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  or at any other time,
  当时或其他时期伦敦规模的三分之一
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  but it has a huge circumference.
  还是一个巨大的牢笼
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  There is a wall around Paris and there are exterior forts,
  在巴黎外围高墙林立 堡垒遍地
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  but you've got an enormous number of people
  但仍有大批民众
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  besieged by Prussian and other German forces, holding on.
  在普鲁士和其他德国军队的围攻中坚守阵地
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  At one point, a French politician whom you'll meet in the textbook,
  你们在课本上会看到一位
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  at least, called Gambetta, who died very young,
  英年早逝的法国政治家 名叫甘贝塔
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  flies away in a balloon,
  一次乘着热气球飞离巴黎
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  flies down toward Tours on the Loire Valley
  飞到了卢瓦尔河河谷的图尔
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  to try to raise up resistance there,
  试图唤起当地人民的抵抗意识
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  but things get quickly very grim indeed.
  但形势很快变得严峻起来