And, so, Germany is under pressure to win the war quickly.

于是德国必须快速取得战争胜利
They, as I said at the end of the last time, last lecture,

正如我在上次课结束时谈到
they anticipated about two weeks it's going to take the big Russian

他们预计俄国佬将用两周
bear to bring all of these forces, in many cases using that single

汇集力量主要用那
track railroad that went all the way to Vladivostok,

通向海参崴的单轨铁路
to prepare to invade Germany, or to defend against German

以此准备侵入德国或抵抗德国
incursions into Russia.

对俄国的侵略
And, so, it was if-- someone once said, and I don't

有人曾说-我记不起此人是谁了-
remember who--as if Schlieffen's dead hand automatically pulled the

仿佛施里芬的亡灵触发了比利时人的反抗
trigger when the Belgian government on the 2nd of August rejected German

8月2日比利时政府德国军队
demands that its armies could march through Belgium.

横穿比利时的命令
And the Belgium Army fought bravely, indeed very heroically, against

比利时军队英勇不屈顽强抗争