学期快要结束的时候,我们听说弗兰克·阿勒已经决定回到美国,他要搬回波士顿地区,回到他的家乡斯波坎去面对抵制征兵制度的后果。
Near the end of the term, we heard that Frank Aller had decided to return to America. He moved back to the Boston area and went home to Spokane to face the draft music.
另外,古滕贝格还做了一件大事:结束征兵制度,这个曾经是德国战后秩序的一个壁垒。
Mr Zu Guttenberg has done one big thing: ending conscription, which had been a bulwark of Germany's post-war order.
征兵制度近期已衰微了,特别是在欧洲,过去的一年内在德国、瑞典和塞尔维亚已经被废弃了,意大利、西班牙和波兰还要更早。
Conscription has withered recently, especially in Europe. Germany, Sweden and Serbia have scrapped it within the past year, following Italy, Spain and Poland earlier in the decade.
Although here, it's as if the government is electing by conscription certain citizens to go die for the sake of the whole.
尽管目前,好像是政府,在通过征兵制选择特定的公民,为了全体利益而死。
I think if you look at conscription as the government picking out certain individuals to go fight in war, then that would be a violation of their natural right to life.
我想如果你把征兵制,视为政府挑选特定的个人去参战,那确实是对自然权利中生命权的侵犯。
What about life? What about military conscription?
譬如生命,譬如征兵制,那又如何?
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