So, then what you've got is-- and you have to--again I always give

于是你仅剩的-你不得不-我总是
ridiculous sports analogies since most of what I did over the weekend

做些无厘头的体育类比只因我周末
was watch football--it works anyway in this case.

常用来看橄榄球-我的比方在此处却恰当
And what you have to do is imagine somebody trying to get outside

想象在一场橄榄球赛中有人想
in a football game, Mike Hart or somebody trying to get

冲出来麦克·哈特或其他人
outside, and as the guards pull and as you move toward the outside,

守卫往回收当此人往外冲时
the defense, and above all the linebackers, and everybody

防守队员尤其是防守线卫所有队员
kind of moves along.

都随之动了起来
And what you have basically is you have a race to the sea.

而战争的情况就好比一场奔向海岸的赛跑
They're trying to outflank each other, where the Germans are going

人人都想智胜对方德军
back to the strategy penned by Schlieffen in 1905,

又回到了1905年施里芬的计划
they're trying to get around to go around, and then put this headlock.

即他们绕到前方卡住对方