Obviously, World War One is-- unleashes the demons of the twentieth century; nobody could have anticipated that all these empires would collapse.

很明显,一战,释放了二十世纪的恶魔,没人能料到,那些帝国会分崩离析

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In the normal course of events, clay dissolves and disappears, and any message on it is erased.

因为在一般的情况下,粘土会分崩离析,所有的信息将灰飞烟灭

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And, so, Paris is surrounded in this sort of glory that was supposed to be, the Empire has collapsed on the head of France.

由此,巴黎出现了一种荣耀的氛围,这并不奇怪,法兰西腐朽的帝国政权终于分崩离析

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Or, if you take almost anywhere else-- the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before it broke up, Vienna was now this over-sized capital that-- in a very, very small country, but it was balanced off by Budapest.

或者,想想其它任何地方,分崩离析前的奥匈帝国,维也纳在这个狭小的国家里,算是特大型的首都,但还有布达佩斯能够与其成对峙之势

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