And at the age of about fifty-five the war came along, and he wrote a book called Strange Defeat, explaining why in 1940 France fell so rapidly.

在他五十五的时候开始打仗了,然后他写了一本书叫《诡异之败》,解释为什么1940年法国这么快就败了

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The other thing was the soldiers came back from World War II and they wanted families.

其二就是战士们从二战的沙场上归来,他们想要组建家庭

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One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

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