And Balzac, to go back to Balzac, he put it the way Parisians view the provinces, and this is still the case.

而巴尔扎克,讲回巴尔扎克,他使巴黎人对乡下产生先入为主的印象,这种印象一直保持到现在

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And, so, for the first time ordinary Parisians found themselves masters of their own lives.

当然,第一次,巴黎的普通市民,发现他们能对自己的生活作主

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And,certainly,the way that provincial people--including myself, and we're legally residents of France, and we live in Ardeche and I'm proud of it-- view Parisians is often with that same kind of contempt that the Parisians look at us.

当然,乡下人包括我自己的生活方式,我们是法国的合法居民,我们住在阿尔代什并以此为傲,在看待巴黎人时也会带有某种轻蔑,就好像巴黎人看我们那样

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And, at the very beginning there was a train that went around the Wall of Paris, more about the walls of Paris another time, that's fun to talk about, and Parisians would take picnic lunches, and they'd get on the train, and then they'd hear these large explosions and realize that they could get killed by these large explosions.

一开始的时候,有一趟火车,是绕着巴黎城墙行驶的,下次我们多讲讲巴黎的城墙,这挺值得一谈,巴黎人会带着午餐便当,坐上火车,然后他们听见了巨大的爆炸声,突然意识到他们可能会被炸死

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