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
overpowering military strength.

对抗有压倒性优势的德军
The big fortress of Liège-- when I get so close here I can't see--

列日的堡垒-我离得太近看不清-
but Liège there falls, and falls to the young--

连番轰炸后列日在16日失陷于
not so young, but--commander, Ludendorff, after a huge bombardment

年轻的-不甚年轻的将领鲁登道夫
on the 16th, followed by the fall of Namur.

紧随那慕尔的失陷
And once the Germans get through the hills of eastern Belgium then they

一旦德军穿过了比利时东部的山脉