And so as the other man is being carted off to the guillotine to be killed,

当那个男人被拉到断头台行刑时
our hero takes his place. Hence, the famous speech,

我们的英雄代替了他并留此名句
"This a far, far better thing I do today."

"这是我今天做的最好的一件事"
Our hero sacrifices himself so that the woman he loves

英雄牺牲自己成全了
can have the man that she loves.

他心爱的女人与她爱的人
Well, for our purposes, the romance isn't crucial.

我们的目的不在于浪漫的故事情节
For our purposes, the crucial point is to see that

而应将注意力集中于
what seems to be going on there is our hero is taking the

怎样看待英雄舍身代替
place of somebody else who's about to die.

另外一个人去死这个问题
Just like somebody could take my place in the string quartet,

就像有人能替我演奏小提琴
it seems that somebody could take my place at the guillotine.

似乎也有人能够代替我上断头台
In the American Civil War, there was a draft,

美国内战时期举国征兵