Now,but the railroads,if you look at the map of the railroads in France, at any time you want including now, all roads lead--all tracks lead to Paris.

无论何时,如果你观察巴黎的铁路线,就会发现,每条路都通往巴黎

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and so when I was in Paris most of the time, I would just go to like, get some food or to go to the bar.

所以大多时候我到了巴黎，我会去买些食物或者去泡吧。

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Now,that has changed, for sure; but,the centralization of the French government and the domination of Paris over the life of the nation is very difficult to change, over a long period of time.

现在,情况已经发生了改变,但是法国政府的中央集权化,以及巴黎在国民生活中的支配地位,在相当时间段内,都很难得以改变

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Well,De Gaulle has been dead for a very long time, and there has been progress, but what has not changed is still the power in Paris, in these ministries, to dictate the life of schools, of almost everything else.

戴高乐已经去世很久,在某些地方已经有所改进,但是巴黎的权利,政府各部门的权利仍未改变,他们规定校园生活,还有几乎其他任何事情

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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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And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

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