the war, but All Quiet on the Western Front isn't really

战争中开始写西线无战事的但直到
written until late in the 1920s, and then of course the Nazis try to

1920年才写完当然纳粹千方百计
keep it from being shown, because it's obviously an anti-war

阻止此书面世因为在德国剧院里
film, in German theaters.

它鲜明的反战色彩
So, in terms of-- in 1914 you could--

1914年
these statistics, you could just give all these statistics and you

你能在任何一本关于一战的书籍里
can read charts in any book, including mine,

找到这些数据包括我的
and it's just--these are real people, which is very hard--

这些都是活生生的人让人难以接受
it's an obvious thing to say but it's hard,

说起来是很轻松的但却十分残酷
the figures are so numbing.

这些数据使人麻木
By the end of 1914, so you're talking about half a year,

截至1914年底开战半年以后
the British, the German and French forces had combined casualties of

英德法三军的遇难人数高达三十万人