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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  Or the Somme is the obvious example that everybody uses
  索姆河的例子耳熟能详
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  and I will use again in awhile.
  我待会也会讲到
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  Or the Battle of Verdun where you're fighting a hand-to-hand,
  或者近身肉搏的凡尔登战役
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  hand-to-hand combat in the forts of Verdun that--and it goes,
  在凡尔登的堡垒下近身肉搏
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  simply goes on, and on, and on.
  永不停歇
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  And there's now the revisionist interpretations of the Battle of
  如今对于帕斯尚尔战役有一些修正主义的
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  Paschendaele--don't write down Paschendaele,
  观点-别试图拼写帕斯尚尔
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  it's impossible to spell anyway-- that, say, well if they'd redefined
  太难拼了-这些观点认为或许伏地扫射
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  the idea of the creeping barrage, and if they'd managed to just take
  的定义并不妥当 或许军队确有成功地
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  one hundred yards, and hold that, and then the next one
  推进一百尺 守住 再推进一百尺
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  hundred yards, et cetera, et cetera.
  如此反复
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  But increasingly-- it was just clear,
  但当时很明显