Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

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The first is the Triumph of Death, where you see what happens in real battle when people are just sort of slaughtered, and the commanders are off at a safe distance.

这一幅叫做《死亡的胜利》,你会看到真正的战争场面,人们在互相残杀,而指挥官们却在隔岸观火

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We'll talk about the Battle of the Somme, s-o-m-m-e. And the Battle of the Somme, in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the first of July, 1916, there were 20,000 British soldiers killed.

我们会谈到索姆河战役,s-o-m-m-e,在索姆河战役,开战的头一天,1916年七月一号,20000英军士兵阵亡

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