The Turks have the saying because the Turks are very good at starting things off but not necessarily finishing them.

土耳其人非常擅长于开始某件事，但是并不一定完成事情,但是并不一定完成事情。

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They lose, and they're forced to surrender Azov to the Turks after an unsuccessful war.

他们被打败,在一场战败之后,俄国不得不把亚速奉还给土耳其人

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So they say you should start like a Turkey and finish like an Englishman.

所以有个说法就是开始时要像土耳其人一样开始某事,而结束时要像英国人一样。

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One that leaps to mind is-- how do they pronounce it in Turkish?

这就让人疑惑,它们的名字在土耳其语里该怎么读

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Certainly in Europe, not until the massacres of the armenians of 1895, and arguably some Napoleonic atrocities, and Napoleon's armies' atrocities in Palestine, in Palestine, or in the south of Italy, or in Spain as well.

895年,土耳其人对亚美尼亚人实施种族灭绝,在这之前可能还包括拿破仑军队的一些暴行,比如在巴勒斯坦,意大利南部,以及西班牙等地的暴行

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