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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  By the end of 1914, so you're talking about half a year,
  截至1914年底 开战半年以后
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  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
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  300,000 killed-- that's three times the number of people
  这个数量是洛杉矶体育场容量的三倍
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  filling up the L.A. Coliseum, or the Rose Bowl, or Michigan Stadium;
  玫瑰杯橄榄球场 密歇根体育场的三倍
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  that's a lot of people--600,000 wounded.
  那是很多很多人 六十万负伤
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  And these are in many cases just devastating wounds,
  而且大多数是致命的伤
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  and so it's not so hard to imagine why the Paris metro,
  因此不难理解为何一九二几年的
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  and the subway in the 1920s was full of people begging with
  巴黎地铁里充满了缺胳膊少腿的乞丐
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  one arm, or one leg, or no legs, or coughing out their
  有的甚至一条腿也没有 有的
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  lungs because of gas attacked.
  为毒气弹所害终日剧烈咳嗽
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  The British 7th Division arrived in France in October 1914 with four
  英军第七师于1914年十月抵达法国
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  hundred officers and 12,000 soldiers, after fighting around Ypres,
  彼时有四百名军官 一万二千个士兵