up by the English-- not far away from the English

边境上了一个小镇紧邻英国靠近
Channel; a beautiful old textile town that

英吉利海峡是个美丽的纺织镇
was destroyed for obvious reasons during the war.

然而它在一战中毁灭了
They had four hundred officers and 12,000 soldiers,

英军原本有四百名军官一万二千个兵
four hundred officers, 12,000 soldiers.

四百名军官一万二千个兵
At the end, after eighteen days, they had forty-four officers and

十八天之后幸存四十四名军官
2,336 soldiers left.

两千三百三十六个兵
Figure out your odds, if you're eighteen, nineteen,

想想你生还的机会如果1914年
twenty, twenty-one, male, in 1914.

你恰逢十八九岁二十出头
And there's a recent movie which I can't remember the name of,

最近有个电影我不记得名字了
my wife has seen it, but it's about in 1914 there was an

我妻子看过讲的是1914年
attempt on Christmas Day for people to say ""?a suffit

的圣诞民众忍不住要高呼够了