来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第21集 第21集》

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  Now, you add to that that they've just lost this terrible war
  而如今 战败已成不争的事实
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  and you could point to what seemed to you to be
  你可将一切都归咎为
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  both a wickedness and foolishness.
  邪恶和愚昧
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  How in the world could anybody think
  在这样的情况下
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  democracy was a good thing after that?
  怎还有人会认为民主体制是件好东西呢
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  Lest you think there's something special about that,
  为了避免让你认为各中有异
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  that's such a characteristic of the human race.
  我得告诉你这是人类的本性使然
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  Whenever you have a great war,
  无论何时战争爆发
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  and if you have two different kinds of political systems
  如果有两个不相同的政体
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  vying with each other,
  两相对峙的话
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  winning has an amazing effect on what people think.
  获胜对于人们的观点有着惊人的影响力
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  So, take the First World War when the--
  以一战为例