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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  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
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  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
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  The war was so close.
  战争如此临近
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  That's what made it terrifying.
  这正是它令人害怕之处
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  But that's what makes-- also because the people lost people,
  人们失去了亲人
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  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
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  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
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  the twentieth century.
  二十世纪上半叶的主题
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  And again, you can look at the whole period, 1914 to 1945 as this long,
  如果你细思这整段时间 1914到
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  horrible, thirty years war,
  1945年这漫长恐怖的三十年战争
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  because the soldiers just simply kept marching.
  士兵们不断地行进
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  But they weren't doing much marching in the trenches because
  但在战壕里没什么需要行进的