来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第15集 第15集》

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  1.6 million men attack the allied defenses in five separate offences
  一百六十万士兵分为五路开始进攻
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  over a front of forty miles.
  长达四十英里同盟军阵线
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  And they do break through.
  他们的确取得了些进展
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  In five days
  在第五天的时候
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  some German units have pushed forward more than forty miles,
  一些德军部队向前推进了超过四十英里
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  and there was-- a complementary attack in Flanders does very well indeed.
  在法兰德斯的辅助攻势也进展顺利
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  And the British troops and the French,
  与此同时 英法部队
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  as General Haigh in Britain famously once said,
  如英国将军黑格所说的那样
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  were fighting with their backs to the wall.
  正是背水一战
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  And on Easter Sunday of that year,
  在那年的复活节那天
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  again the shells from Big Bertha
  德国远程大炮的炮弹
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  lobbed all those miles, from the north, fall on Paris.
  从北方穿越了好几英里击中巴黎