来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第14集 第14集》

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  and he also is having doubts with a view toward the home front of
  同时对大后方 他亦疑惧
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  wanting--of fearing how far the French in their inevitable
  法国在迟早收复阿尔萨斯-洛林之后
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  penetration into Alsace-Lorraine would go.
  还能有多少进展
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  And, so, indeed France advances in Alsace, although they had been
  法国的确在阿尔萨斯取得了进展
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  anticipated by Schlieffen as inevitable and not crucial to the
  尽管施里芬已预料到其必然性 且对
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  winning of the war in a very timely fashion,
  战局并无决定性的影响
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  now lead von Moltke to transfer troops, fearing that the home front
  但毛奇仍因此转移军队 担心后方
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  might despair of French advances there.
  会因法军的进展而崩溃
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  And, so, what this means is that the Germans have basically fewer troops
  这意味着德军数量比
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  than had been anticipated in the original plan by von Schlieffen.
  冯·施里芬起初的计划少
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  And sure enough the British Expeditionary Force,
  理所当然 英国远征军
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  which was not a large army, finally arrives on the 20th of
  这支不大的军队 于8月20日