来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第20集》

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  and you can't see it anyway.
  反正你们也看不清
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  I'll work from that, so it'll help you understand.
  我会从这些术语开始讲 来帮助你们听懂
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  But the big points are clear, and the maps will help you as well.
  但是我会突出重点 同时运用地图来帮忙
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  Just a couple things at the beginning, which are perfectly obvious.
  首先我想谈谈几个众所周知的问题
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  In 1914, few people could have imagined
  1914年正值一战前夕 没人会想到
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  that they would sweep away four empires, etc., etc.
  他们会打败四个帝国 等等的想法
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  and take the lives of millions of people.
  并且夺走数百万人的性命
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  In 1918 and 1919 there was the Great Illusion.
  1918和1919年就曾有一些大幻觉
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  The Great Illusion was held by Wilson and lots of other people,
  威尔逊总统在内的一些人都怀有类似幻觉
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  that wars were started by evil people in high places,
  即战争是由上层的邪恶势力发起的
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  which may often be the case.
  在一些情况下确实是这样的
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  But the problems left by the Treaty of Versailles were basically insoluble.
  但凡尔赛和约留下的问题基本是难以解决的