Then Mr.Obama heads to the French-German border for a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

And there's some amazing scenes in it where they shave the heads of horizontal collaborators, which is sort of a crude way of talking about French women who slept with German officers-- horizontal collaboration. And at the end of the movie, there was Maurice Chevalier.

有一些很棒的镜头,给那些卧床法奸剃头,这是一种很粗鲁的说法形容那些,和德国军官上床的法国女人,卧床法奸,在电影最后,有莫里斯·舍瓦利埃

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But that goodwill will be tested during three key summits Mr.Obama will be attending in London, on the French-German border, and in Prague.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

At the NATO summit he attended on the French-German border, Mr.Obama said allies contributed important resources to support the new U.S.strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

But experts like Jean-Luc Sauron say the French-German relationship still matters.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

European Council on Foreign Relations defense specialist Daniel Korski says Afghanistan is expected to dominate talks among leaders celebrating NATO's 60th anniversary April third and fourth on the French-German border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

(Choral music) The two European leaders listened to a French army choir sang the Marseillaise and then the German anthem, marking a French-German friendship that grew from the ashes of the two world wars.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

"Historically it's one of the most important parts of the period of World War II in France,the roundup - the rafle du Vel dHiv - is a symbol of collaboration between the French police and the German occupying authorities."

VOA: standard.2010.04.10