British Army you could have lunch in the Officer's Club at

英国军官你在维多利亚车站的
Victoria Station, where many of you have been,

军官俱乐部吃了中饭你们许多人去过
and you could take the train to the front and you could be dead

然后你做火车去了趟前线你很可能便
by--in the same front, you could be dead,

死在了那里-与士兵死在同一个前线
fini, crevé, by the end of the day.

死了没了在天黑前
When Welsh miners tunneled under this big promontory in Belgium,

威尔士矿工在比利时的大海角下挖隧道时
the explosion could be heard across the English Channel in Kent.

爆炸声传到了英吉利海峡另一端的肯特郡
The war was so close.

战争如此临近
That's what made it terrifying.

这正是它令人害怕之处
But that's what makes-- also because the people lost people,

人们失去了亲人
lost family, everybody lost family--that war was the dominant

失去了家人每个人都有失去的家人
experience of the twentieth century, at least the first half of

战争是二十世纪的主旋律起码是