二战启示录 第72期:盟军反攻(4)

 Back in his headquarters the "Wolf's Lair¹", Hitler's scornful

回到总部“狼穴”，希特勒嘲笑对方

He says "It is just a set back"

他说“这只是一个挫败”

"The war will go on" and indeed it does.

“战争将持续下去”。确实如此

The Allies open up a new front in north Africa

盟军在北非开辟新战场

a first step towards controlling the Mediterranean²

朝控制地中海迈出第一步

As in 1917 American troops sail across the Atlantic

如同1917年美军搭船横渡大西洋

The French writer Saint-Exupery who has exiled in New York

流亡纽约的法国作家圣埃克苏佩里

will return from the US with one of its military convoyes

将搭乘其中一艘护航舰返回法国

The author of "The Little Prince" writes

这位《小王子》的作者写道

"Friends of American I'd like to do you complete justice"

“美国的朋友，我要为你们说句公道话”

"Fifty thousnad soldiers were going to war not for the United States but for humanity"

“五万名士兵将到前线作战并非为了美国，而是为了全人类”

"For human respect, for human freedom and for human greatness"

“为了人类的尊严、为了人类的自由和人类的伟大”

Off the coast of Casablanca and Oran

在卡萨布兰卡和奥伦外海

British and American are greeted with cannon³ gunfire from the Vichy French

英美军队遭到维西法国的炮火攻击

They conter attack

他们反击

North Africa were still controled by the Vichy regime which colaborates with Germans

北非仍受和德军合作的维西政权控制

The fighting is violent

双方激战

The Vichy forces suffers extensive damage

维西军队受到重创

The Free France leader Genernal De Gaulle makes his specch over the radio in London

自由法国领袖戴高乐在伦敦电台发表演说

After two days fighting against "Liberators", the guns are silenced

和“解放者”轰炸机对战两天，炮火平息下来

The Allies secure their landing.

盟军登陆成功

In Algiers, the pragmatic US Commandering Chief General Eisenhower

阿尔及尔，务实的美军总司令艾森豪威尔将军在何尔及尔

negotiate with Vichy regime military commander Admiral Darlan

和维西军队指挥官达尔朗海军上将谈判

Darlan is one of the France's most diehard collaborators who'd even met Hitler

达尔朗是法国最死硬的通敌者，他甚至见过希特勒

He decides to switch sides and French forces in Algeria and Morocco join the Allies

他决定转变立场，阿尔及利亚和摩洛哥的法军遂加入盟军

A few weeks later Darlan will be assassinated by a French resistance fighter

数周后，达尔朗将被一名法国抵抗运动分子刺杀

1 lair   

n.野兽的巢穴；躲藏处

参考例句：

• How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?不入虎穴，焉得虎子？
• I retired to my lair,and wrote some letters.我回到自己的躲藏处，写了几封信。

2 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

3 cannon   

n.大炮，火炮；飞机上的机关炮

参考例句：

• The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
• The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。