and other people, it was a call,

这本书被称为
a cry of alarm for parliament to do something about that.

刺激国会行动的嚎哭的警报
He was a man of the Left,

他是左翼的一员
he defended Dreyfus, against the church

正如你们所知他支持德雷福斯
and against the Army and all that, as you know.

反对教会军队以及其他
But it was a non-political, it was an apolitical statement.

这是一种不愿卷入政治一种不关心政治的态度
He just wants somebody to do something about the fact

他只是关心事实反应事实的一个人
that the French seem to be drinking themselves to death,

法国人看似是酗酒至死
and if you didn't believe that

如果你不信的话
all you had to do was to go up to Montmartre,

你可以去蒙马特
or as today, and see all the people--

或者像现如今去看看那的人们
--and a lot of them are sort of sad sacks

那里许多人的日子过的都有些悲惨