【牛津辩论】丘吉尔是一个英雄?
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:28 | Amazing. | 厉害 |
| 0:29 | Without further ado, Adnan. | 别再说了,阿德南 |
| 0:32 | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the House, good evening. | 总统女士 女士们先生们 晚上好 |
| 0:35 | And to our opposition, good luck. | 对我们的反对, 祝你好运。 |
| 0:39 | In 1940, Britain stood at the edge of annihilation. | 1940年,英国站在毁灭的边缘. |
| 0:42 | France had fallen, Europe trembled under the fist of Hitler, | 法国沦陷了 欧洲在希特勒的拳头下颤抖 |
| 0:46 | and the world seemed poised to surrender to tyranny. | 世界似乎准备屈服于暴政 |
| 0:49 | And in that moment, Winston Churchill did something remarkable. | 在那一刻,温斯顿·丘吉尔做了一件了不起的事。 |
| 0:53 | He stood firm, and he spoke not in whispers of caution, | 他站稳了,他没有隐讳地说话, |
| 0:57 | but in words that roared across the nation. | 却用遍及全国的言语 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazing. | 厉害 |
| 2 | Without further ado, Adnan. | 别再说了,阿德南 |
| 3 | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen of the House, good evening. | 总统女士 女士们先生们 晚上好 |
| 4 | And to our opposition, good luck. | 对我们的反对, 祝你好运。 |
| 5 | In 1940, Britain stood at the edge of annihilation. | 1940年,英国站在毁灭的边缘. |
| 6 | France had fallen, Europe trembled under the fist of Hitler, | 法国沦陷了 欧洲在希特勒的拳头下颤抖 |
| 7 | and the world seemed poised to surrender to tyranny. | 世界似乎准备屈服于暴政 |
| 8 | And in that moment, Winston Churchill did something remarkable. | 在那一刻,温斯顿·丘吉尔做了一件了不起的事。 |
| 9 | He stood firm, and he spoke not in whispers of caution, | 他站稳了,他没有隐讳地说话, |
| 10 | but in words that roared across the nation. | 却用遍及全国的言语 |
| 11 | Words that inspired courage, defied fear, | 这些话激发了勇气和恐惧 |
| 12 | and galvanised people to resist when resistance seemed impossible. | 在抵抗似乎不可能的时候,他们使人民奋起反抗。 |
| 13 | To lead in calm times is easy. | 在平静时期领导是很容易的。 |
| 14 | To lead when the skies are filled with smoke | 当天空充满了烟雾时, |
| 15 | and bombs rain down upon your city, that is the measure of a hero. | 炸弹落在你的城市里 这是英雄的衡量标准 |
| 16 | Tonight's motion is so preposterous | 今晚的动议太荒谬了 |
| 17 | that it causes opposition speakers to drop out. | 导致反对派发言人退学。 |
| 18 | We are here today to debate a straightforward question of history. | 我们今天在这里辩论一个直接的历史问题。 |
| 19 | Was Winston Churchill a hero? | 温斯顿·丘吉尔是英雄吗? |
| 20 | My answer is unequivocally yes. | 我的回答是肯定的。 |
| 21 | And I'll show you why, not by glorifying a man blindly, | 我会告诉你为什么,不是盲目的赞美一个人, |
| 22 | but by examining what true heroism requires | 但通过审查真正的英雄主义需要什么 |
| 23 | and how Churchill embodied it when it mattered most. | 和丘吉尔如何体现它 当它最重要的。 |
| 24 | But firstly, it's my privilege to introduce some of the speakers. | 但首先,我荣幸地介绍一些发言者。 |
| 25 | I was hoping to go against my dear friend, Lisa Barkova, | 我想和我亲爱的朋友丽莎·巴科娃作对 |
| 26 | but there's been a lot of change recently, | 但最近发生了很多变化 |
| 27 | as you might have seen, with what's going on. | 正如你可能已经看到, 与发生了什么。 |
| 28 | 所以首先 我们有Tanush Agarwal | |
| 29 | and Barath Ananthaman is going second. | 巴拉斯・阿南塔曼是第二位。 |
| 30 | These are two of Oxford University's finance debaters, | 这是牛津大学的两位金融辩论者 |
| 31 | and we're all looking forward to see how they go about | 我们都期待着看到他们如何去 |
| 32 | opposing the man that's consistently rated | 反对总是被评为 |
| 33 | as the greatest Britain of all time. | 作为有史以来最伟大的英国。 |
| 34 | Third, we have Professor Brendan Simms | 第三,布伦丹·西姆斯教授来了 |
| 35 | from the University of Cambridge. | 剑桥大学的 |
| 36 | And I hope you enjoy your time at the best university in the world tonight. | 我希望你能享受今晚最好的大学时光 |
| 37 | Now, I also wanted to thank Reform's Big Wigs | 现在,我也想感谢改革的大维 |
| 38 | for coming here tonight to the curtain raiser. | 因为今晚会来这里 来到拉窗帘的人。 |
| 39 | Who better to debate about the British bulldog | 谁最好辩论英国斗牛犬 |
| 40 | than those who specialize in dog whistle politics? | 比那些专攻狗口哨政治的人? |
| 41 | Many people are wondering why a Wadamite | 许多人在想为什么是和田 |
| 42 | is here on the side of the Chamber. | 位于会议厅一侧。 |
| 43 | Well, if Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister, | 如果奈杰尔·法拉吉成为首相 |
| 44 | I'm sure they'll want to pack the House of Lords. | 我相信他们会想收拾上议院的 |
| 45 | So we're hoping that if the cash-for-honor system is reintroduced here, | 所以我们希望如果在这里重新采用现金换收入制度 |
| 46 | a few of us are hoping for a student discount tonight. | 我们几个希望今晚有学生折扣 |
| 47 | Our London mayoral candidate, Leila Cunningham, | 我们的伦敦市长候选人 莱拉·坎宁安 |
| 48 | has recently suggested the idea of banning all Pakistanis on visas. | 最近有人建议禁止所有巴基斯坦人持签证。 |
| 49 | Madam President, the reason I raise it | 总统女士,我提这个的原因 |
| 50 | is because this House absolutely rejects | 那是因为这个天房是否认的, |
| 51 | the notion of sowing such division. | 传播这种分裂的概念。 |
| 52 | Here at Oxford, many of our illustrious members, presidents, | 在牛津,我们许多杰出成员,总统, |
| 53 | and even prime ministers come on that visa. | 连首相都签了签证 |
| 54 | Madam President, these are your speakers, | 主席女士,这些是你的发言者, |
| 55 | and as always at the last Bastion of Free Speech, | 和往常一样 在最后的"自由演说", |
| 56 | they are most welcome. | 他们非常受欢迎。 |
| 57 | Many heroes adorn our walls, | 许多英雄都装饰着我们的墙壁 |
| 58 | and when we invite speakers, we usually single out a few. | 我们邀请发言者时,通常只举几个人。 |
| 59 | The Queen, Albert Einstein, but always Winston Churchill. | 女王阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦,但总是温斯顿·丘吉尔. |
| 60 | He represented ideals of courage, | 他代表着勇气的理想 |
| 61 | outstanding achievements, and noble qualities. | 杰出成就和崇高品质。 |
| 62 | He did not merely lead Britain through crisis. | 他不仅仅带领英国经历了危机。 |
| 63 | He redefined what leadership meant. | 他重新界定了领导的意义。 |
| 64 | Churchill was not just a hero of his time, | 丘吉尔不仅是他的英雄时代, |
| 65 | but the reason Britain had a future at all, | 但英国有未来的原因 |
| 66 | in which we can sit here today and even debate him. | 今天我们可以坐在这里甚至辩论他。 |
| 67 | It may seem obvious now in hindsight, | 事后看来可能很明显 |
| 68 | but how could you trust a man like Hitler? | 但你怎么能相信希特勒这样的人? |
| 69 | There were many individuals in his own cabinet, | 他的内阁里有很多人 |
| 70 | such as Lord Halifax, who were seeking to make deals with him. | 比如哈利法克斯勋爵 他试图与他交易 |
| 71 | Neville Chamberlain, Churchill's predecessor, | 纳维尔·张伯伦,丘吉尔的前身, |
| 72 | sought appeasement in the 1930s, | 在1930年代寻求绥靖, |
| 73 | resulting in the Munich Agreement, | 导致《慕尼黑协定》, |
| 74 | an agreement that Hitler then violated six months later | 六个月后希特勒违反的协议 |
| 75 | when he invaded Poland. | 他入侵波兰时 |
| 76 | And yet Churchill stood resolute. | 然而丘吉尔却坚定不移 |
| 77 | He did not negotiate. | 他没有谈判。 |
| 78 | He did not wane. | 他没有弱。 |
| 79 | And he made it clear to his people | 他对他的宗族说得很清楚 |
| 80 | that he was ready to die fighting rather than surrender. | 他准备战死而不是投降 |
| 81 | The words of defiance are impassable from our minds and history. | 我们的思想和历史都无法容忍这种蔑视的言论。 |
| 82 | We shall fight on the beaches. | 我们要在海滩上战斗 |
| 83 | We shall fight on the landing grounds. | 我们要在着陆场战斗 |
| 84 | We shall never surrender. | 我们绝不投降。 |
| 85 | They remind us that heroism is not born of ease, | 他们提醒我们,英雄主义并非由轻松而生, |
| 86 | but of courage in the face of overwhelming odds. | 面对重重的险境 却有勇气 |
| 87 | It was he who built the Grand Alliance of the U.S. and Russia. | 正是他建立了美俄大联盟. |
| 88 | He recognized that, with exceptional clarity, | 他承认,非常明确, |
| 89 | that the defeat of Nazi Germany | 纳粹德国的失败 |
| 90 | required a coalition that transcended ideology and national interest. | 需要一个超越意识形态和国家利益的联盟。 |
| 91 | In forging unity where none naturally existed, | 在没有自然存在的地方建立团结, |
| 92 | Churchill demonstrated a form of heroism | 丘吉尔表现了一种英雄主义 |
| 93 | rooted not in sentiment, but in judgment and responsibility. | 根植于不是感情 而是判断和责任 |
| 94 | And his heroic acts were not confined just to World War II. | 他的英勇行为并不仅仅局限于二战. |
| 95 | In 1899, he escaped from a prison of war camp | 1899年,他从战俘营逃出 |
| 96 | during the Second World War. | 第二次世界大战期间 |
| 97 | These words are lifted from his biography, | 这些话从他的传记中删除了 |
| 98 | and it gives you a flavor of his achievements. | 让你尝尝他的成就 |
| 99 | I reached Durban to find myself a popular hero, | 我来到德班是为了找个受欢迎的英雄 |
| 100 | welled along on the shoulders of the crowd, | 在人群的肩膀上, |
| 101 | where nothing would content them but a speech. | 在那里,他们只得说几句。 |
| 102 | And then again, in World War I, | 在第一次世界大战中, |
| 103 | he actively sought military service for his country. | 他积极寻求为本国服兵役。 |
| 104 | Leaning from the front and under enemy fire, | 在敌军的火力下从前线俯冲 |
| 105 | he often remarked to his soldiers, | 他常常对他的士兵说: |
| 106 | It's no point ducking. | 躲起来没意义 |
| 107 | The bullets have passed. | 子弹已经过去。 |
| 108 | In the same war, he also championed the Brodie Helmet, | 在同一场战争中,他还卫冕了布罗迪·赫尔梅特的冠军, |
| 109 | reducing fatalities from shrapnel by around 75%, | 将弹片造成的死亡减少约75%, |
| 110 | ultimately saving thousands of lives. | 最终拯救了成千上万人的生命。 |
| 111 | Now consider the alternatives. | 现在考虑其他选择。 |
| 112 | Imagine Britain in 1940 with a different leader, | 想象一下英国在1940年 与另一个领导人, |
| 113 | a prime minister who sought compromise with Hitler, | 一个寻求与希特勒妥协的总理 |
| 114 | who whispered of appeasement while Europe burned. | 在欧洲被焚毁的时候 悄悄地说着安抚 |
| 115 | Would history remember such a figure as heroic? | 历史会记得这样一个英雄人物吗? |
| 116 | Certainly not. | 当然不会 |
| 117 | Churchill's heroism lies precisely in that choice, | 丘吉尔的英雄主义 恰恰在于这个选择, |
| 118 | the courage to resist, to rally, | 反抗的勇气, 团结, |
| 119 | and to lead against the tide of fear. | 并领导对抗恐惧的潮流。 |
| 120 | And his heroic acts are not limited | 他的英雄行为并不有限 |
| 121 | to wartime speeches or strategy alone. | 单凭战时演说或策略 |
| 122 | There is an abundance of examples. | 例子很多。 |
| 123 | Churchill understood the stakes of liberty, | 丘吉尔明白自由的意义 |
| 124 | freedom, and moral imperative to defend it. | 自由和捍卫自由的道德义务。 |
| 125 | When he refused to consider surrender, | 当他拒绝考虑投降时 |
| 126 | he inspired a nation to believe in itself. | 他激励一个国家相信自己。 |
| 127 | And as a result, he gave the world hope. | 于是他给世界带来了希望。 |
| 128 | Hope is, after all, the most heroic of gifts. | 归根结底,希望是最英勇的礼物。 |
| 129 | Now let's address the crux of the opposition's debate tonight. | 现在我们来谈谈反对派今晚辩论的症结 |
| 130 | If they're going to spend the next hour | 如果他们接下来要花一个小时 |
| 131 | calling Churchill a racist and imperialist, | 称丘吉尔为种族主义和帝国主义, |
| 132 | I can save you some time. | 我可以救你一些时间。 |
| 133 | He absolutely was. | 他绝对是。 |
| 134 | These ideologies aren't acceptable now, then, or ever. | 现在、现在或永远都不能接受这些意识形态。 |
| 135 | But tonight's motion asks, was Churchill a hero? | 但是今晚的动议问,丘吉尔是英雄吗? |
| 136 | And that, he most definitely was. | 他绝对是 |
| 137 | Heroism is not the absence of flaws. | 英雄主义并不是没有缺陷。 |
| 138 | Churchill made grave mistakes, | 丘吉尔犯了严重的错误, |
| 139 | his record on the British Empire, | 他在大英帝国的纪录, |
| 140 | his policies during the Bengal famine, | 他的政策 在孟加拉饥荒, |
| 141 | causing the death of millions of people | 造成数百万人死亡 |
| 142 | in the Indian subcontinent, | 在印度次大陆, |
| 143 | and described them, my ancestors, as beastly people, | 并描述他们,我的祖先, 作为野兽的人, |
| 144 | and that the famine was their fault for breeding like rabbits. | 饥荒是他们像兔子一样繁殖的错 |
| 145 | To claim Churchill wasn't an imperialist or a racist | 丘吉尔不是帝国主义者,也不是种族主义者 |
| 146 | would be dishonest and unworthy of serious debate. | 这将是不诚实和不值得认真辩论。 |
| 147 | Such actions have and will always receive condemnation | 这种行动已经而且将永远受到谴责 |
| 148 | from both sides of the house. | 从两侧的房子。 |
| 149 | Therefore, I also hope the opposition | 因此,我也希望反对派 |
| 150 | will condemn Florence Nightingale, Horatio Nelson, | 将谴责佛罗伦萨·南丁格尔 霍拉西奥·尼尔森 |
| 151 | and other leading figures of the time who had similar ideas. | 以及当时其他有类似想法的主要人物. |
| 152 | When the British people thought he was no longer | 当英国人民认为他不再 |
| 153 | the best person to lead them, he was duly replaced. | 他是领导他们的最佳人选 他被妥善取代了 |
| 154 | However, they never forgot Churchill and what they owed him. | 然而,他们从未忘记丘吉尔和他们欠他的东西. |
| 155 | And in the end, gifted the honour of being the only non-royal | 最后,我有幸成为唯一的非皇帝 |
| 156 | in the last 100 years to be honoured with a state funeral. | 在过去的100年里 被授予国家葬礼的荣誉 |
| 157 | Sorry, there's a lot of disruption tonight, | 对不起,今晚有很多麻烦 |
| 158 | so I didn't think I would do any of this. | 所以我没想到我会做这些 |
| 159 | To judge Churchill only by his flaws | 仅凭丘吉尔的缺点来判断他 |
| 160 | is to misunderstand the essence of being a hero. | 就是要误解英雄的本质 |
| 161 | It is measured not by the absence of error, | 不以无差错为衡量标准, |
| 162 | but by the courage to act when it counts, | 但凭勇气在有需要的时候采取行动, |
| 163 | by the vision to see beyond oneself, | 以能见其外者发誓, |
| 164 | and by the willingness to shoulder responsibility | 并愿意承担责任 |
| 165 | of the fate of others. | 将他人的命运 |
| 166 | Churchill's decisions not only changed the fate of Britain, | 丘吉尔的决定不仅改变了英国的命运, |
| 167 | but of the free world. | 而是自由世界的 |
| 168 | His courage helped preserve democracy in Europe, | 他的勇气有助于维护欧洲的民主, |
| 169 | halted the spread of fascism, | 制止法西斯主义的蔓延, |
| 170 | and inspired generations to come. | 并启示后世。 |
| 171 | That is heroism in its purest form. | 这是最纯洁的英雄主义。 |
| 172 | Many can and should validly debate | 许多人可以而且应该进行有效辩论 |
| 173 | the legacy of the greatest Briton. | 伟大的布里顿的遗产。 |
| 174 | I mean, what's the point of having this chamber if we don't? | 如果我们不这样做,这个房间有什么意义? |
| 175 | But in terms of tonight's motion, I agree unequivocally. | 但就今晚的动议而言 我明确同意 |
| 176 | When Britain and the world needed him, | 当英国和世界需要他时 |
| 177 | Sir Winston Churchill was the hero that saved us all from the Nazis. | 温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士是从纳粹手中拯救我们所有人的英雄。 |
| 178 | And I urge the honourable members to support the motion tonight. | 我敦促尊敬的成员支持今晚的动议。 |
| 179 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
| 180 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 181 | Thank you, Adnan. | 谢谢你,阿德南 |
| 182 | Next, I would like to invite Opposition Speaker Mr Tanush Agarwal | 接下来,我请反对党议长塔努什·阿加瓦尔先生发言。 |
| 183 | to deliver his speech. | 来发表演讲 |
| 184 | Okay. | 摆 |
| 185 | I know reform is often uneasy | 我知道改革常常很不安 |
| 186 | with the language of nuance and spectrums, | 以细微和频谱的语言, |
| 187 | but history, inconveniently for them, | 但历史对他们来说是不方便的, |
| 188 | has never operated in binaries. | 从未用二进制操作。 |
| 189 | When we ask whether Winston Churchill was a hero, | 当我们问温斯顿·丘吉尔是不是英雄时 |
| 190 | we are not asking whether he ever did anything good, | 我们没有问他有没有做过好事, |
| 191 | or whether Britain survived moments of crisis | 英国是否在危机中幸存下来 |
| 192 | while he happened to be in office. | 他刚好在任期间 |
| 193 | History is full of powerful men | 历史充满了强大的人 |
| 194 | who are effective, decisive, and even victorious, | 他们是有效的,是果断的,甚至是胜利的; |
| 195 | and yet all morally indefensible. | 却在道德上无可辩驳 |
| 196 | Tonight, heroism for proposition | 今晚,英雄主义为提议 |
| 197 | has a narrow and demanding burden, | 负担是狭隘和苛刻的, |
| 198 | and it is this burden that they will be unable to discharge. | 他们不能履行这一重负。 |
| 199 | But before that, it falls upon me | 但在此之前,它落在我身上 |
| 200 | to introduce our proposition bench tonight. | 今晚介绍我们的建议席 |
| 201 | You have just heard from Dr Adnan Malik, | 你刚听到阿德南·马利克博士的消息 |
| 202 | an MBA student at Said. | 赛德的MBA学生。 |
| 203 | Now, prior to this debate, I had actually never met Dr Malik, | 在这场辩论之前 我从未见过马利克医生 |
| 204 | but I was surprised to hear that two reform people | 但我惊讶地听到两个改革者 |
| 205 | had managed to get someone with a PhD | 找了个有博士学位的人 |
| 206 | on their side of the house. | 在他们的房子一侧。 |
| 207 | But rest assured, as I found out, | 但请放心,我发现, |
| 208 | Dr Malik is actually a doctor in medicine, | 马利克医生其实是医学博士 |
| 209 | urology to be exact, | 确切地说,泌尿科 |
| 210 | where he ranked as the second best surgeon | 他的外科医生排名第二 |
| 211 | in national selection. | 在国家甄选中。 |
| 212 | So for all you medics in the crowd, | 所以,对于所有 在人群中的医护人员, |
| 213 | the second best future surgeon in the NHS sold out. | 未来第二好的外科医生 在NHS的销量。 |
| 214 | I don't want to hear anything about PPEists ever again. | 我不想再听到任何关于个人防护人员的消息 |
| 215 | Next, you will hear from Zia Youssef, | 接下来是齐亚·尤瑟夫的消息 |
| 216 | the current head of policy at Reform, | 现任改革政策主管, |
| 217 | and a man who truly proves | 和一个能证明自己 |
| 218 | that when reforms say anti-establishment, | 当改革说反对建立, |
| 219 | they really mean anti-current establishment. | 他们真的是指反当前机构。 |
| 220 | He's a tech entrepreneur and former banker | 他是一个技术企业家和前银行家 |
| 221 | who became the party's biggest donor and then its chair, | 他成为了党的最大捐赠者 然后是主席 |
| 222 | which I suppose is one way to do grassroots politics. | 我认为这是基层政治的一种方式。 |
| 223 | You start from the top and work your way down. | 你从头开始往下走 |
| 224 | Mr Youssef met Nigel Farage | 尤瑟夫先生认识了奈杰尔·法拉吉 |
| 225 | 在Stuart Wheeler主持的鸡尾酒会上 | |
| 226 | which is a funny enough sentence on its own, | 这句子很搞笑 |
| 227 | but gets even funnier when juxtaposed | 但更有趣 当并排 |
| 228 | against Mr Youssef's insistence | 反对尤瑟夫先生的坚持 |
| 229 | that reform is anti-elite, | 改革是反精英的, |
| 230 | because nothing says more for the people | 因为对人民来说没什么比这更重要的了 |
| 231 | than a tech millionaire who met Nigel Farage | 比一个技术百万富翁 遇见奈杰尔·法拉吉 |
| 232 | 在Stuart Wheeler主持的鸡尾酒会上 | |
| 233 | though I guess I'm jealous, | 虽然我想我是嫉妒, |
| 234 | I'm probably not British enough to be let in. | 我可能不够英国 被允许进入。 |
| 235 | I will say this, it is rare to see someone become party chair | 我要说,很少见到有人当党主席 |
| 236 | without first going through the inconvenience | 不首先经历不便 |
| 237 | of believing in the party, | 相信党, |
| 238 | but I suppose miracles happen if you have enough money | 但我猜如果你有足够的钱 奇迹就会发生 |
| 239 | to be on the top of the donor list. | 在捐赠者名单中名列前茅 |
| 240 | Finally, you will hear from Leila Cunningham. | 最后,你将听到莱拉・坎宁安的消息。 |
| 241 | Now, the rows for Leila Cunningham are on that paper, | 现在,莱拉·坎宁安的行 在报纸上, |
| 242 | which I threw on the floor, | 我扔在地板上, |
| 243 | but I'll remember off the top of my head. | 但我会记住 从头到尾。 |
| 244 | About 70% of her early life page on Wikipedia | 在维基百科上她早期生命的70%左右 |
| 245 | is dedicated to her basketball talent, | 献身于她的篮球天赋, |
| 246 | which, Ms Cunningham, if you were going to defect anyways, | 坎宁安小姐 如果你反正要叛变 |
| 247 | why not just go all the way to the Lakers? | 为什么不直接去湖人队? |
| 248 | If you want to have fun failing, | 如果你想玩玩失败, |
| 249 | I think there's better ways of doing that, | 我认为有更好的方法做到这一点, |
| 250 | but I guess none would be as much of a guarantee | 但我想没有比这更好的保证了 |
| 251 | as running for reform in London, so fair enough. | 在伦敦竞选改革,那么公平 |
| 252 | Ms Cunningham defected, for those who don't know, | 坎宁安女士叛变了 对于不知道的人来说 |
| 253 | from the conservatives to reform, | 从保守派到改革, |
| 254 | which, to be honest, is probably one of the most honest journeys | 老实说,这可能是最诚实的旅程之一 |
| 255 | I've seen in British politics. | 我看过英国政治 |
| 256 | I mean, they just skipped the whole, like, lie | 我的意思是,他们只是跳过 整个一样,谎言 |
| 257 | about believing in principles in the first place, | 确信原则, |
| 258 | so fair enough to Ms Cunningham. | 对坎宁安女士来说太公平了 |
| 259 | But all jokes aside, I wish them good luck | 但除了笑话 我祝他们好运 |
| 260 | for the rest of this debate. | 接下来的辩论。 |
| 261 | Madam President, these are your guests, and they are most welcome. | 主席女士,这是你的客人,非常欢迎他们。 |
| 262 | Okay, let's begin. | 好了,开始吧 |
| 263 | I want to begin with a central moral question in this debate. | 我想从本次辩论中的中心道德问题开始。 |
| 264 | What does it mean to be a hero? | 做英雄意味着什么? |
| 265 | Because tonight, I'm sure, and as you did just here, | 因为今晚,我敢肯定, 正如你刚刚在这里, |
| 266 | you will hear the claim that heroes can be flawed | 你会听到英雄有缺陷的说法 |
| 267 | so long as they did heroic things. | 只要他们做了英雄的事 |
| 268 | And I wouldn't blame anyone in this crowd | 我不会责怪这群人中的任何人 |
| 269 | for holding this intuition, | 因为持有这种直觉, |
| 270 | because I don't think it's necessarily wrong, | 因为我不认为这是必然错误的, |
| 271 | it's just dangerously unspecific. | 它只是危险的不具体。 |
| 272 | Instead, there are three relevant constraints, | 相反,有三个相关的制约因素: |
| 273 | and each one is fatal to Churchill. | 每个都对丘吉尔来说都是致命的 |
| 274 | First, heroism must necessarily be universal. | 首先,英雄主义必须具有普遍性。 |
| 275 | It is not enough to be a hero to some | 做英雄还不够 |
| 276 | while being an active source of suffering to others. | 同时也是他人痛苦的源头 |
| 277 | I would note that if you abandon universality, | 我要指出,如果你放弃普遍性, |
| 278 | even history's worst villains can be called heroes | 甚至历史最坏的恶棍 也可以叫做英雄 |
| 279 | in the eyes of their supporters. | 在他们的支持者眼中 |
| 280 | So, you need the average moral human | 所以,你需要一个普通的道德人 |
| 281 | to rationally consider you a hero | 理性地认为你是英雄 |
| 282 | regardless of whether they were Bengali, | 无论他们是孟加拉人, |
| 283 | Irish, or British. | 爱尔兰人,或英国人。 |
| 284 | Second, heroes can be flawed | 第二,英雄有缺陷 |
| 285 | because fear and error are human. | 因为恐惧和错误是人 |
| 286 | But in moments of fear, a hero acts bravely. | 但是在恐惧的时刻,一个英雄勇敢地行动. |
| 287 | In moments of error, a hero corrects course. | 在错误的时刻,一个英雄会修正路线. |
| 288 | The underlying character remains intact | 基本特征保持不变 |
| 289 | and crucially, morally salient. | 关键是,道德上的突出。 |
| 290 | But what is not a flaw, | 但这不是一个缺陷, |
| 291 | and what simply can't be morally excused as mistakes, | 而那些在道德上不能被原谅的错误, |
| 292 | is the repeated and deliberate use of power | 是反复和蓄意地使用权力 |
| 293 | to support oppression, repression, and violence. | 支持压迫、镇压和暴力。 |
| 294 | And that is what Barth will talk about in his speech | 这也是巴斯在演讲中要说的 |
| 295 | because what that points to is not just a moral flaw, | 因为那不仅仅是道德缺陷 |
| 296 | but a fundamentally morally abhorrent value system. | 但却是一个道德上令人憎恶的价值观体系 |
| 297 | Third, and most importantly, | 第三,最重要的是, |
| 298 | some harms are so grave, so systemic, and so avoidable | 有些伤害是如此严重,如此系统,如此可避免 |
| 299 | that they ought to fundamentally dominate | 他们应该从根本上支配 |
| 300 | a person's moral legacy. | 一个人的道德遗产。 |
| 301 | Consider the situation of a serial killer | 考虑连环杀手的情况 |
| 302 | who, after every person he kills, | 他杀过每个人, |
| 303 | saves a child from a burning building. | 将孩子从燃烧的建筑物中拯救出来。 |
| 304 | We may call the act heroic, | 我们可以称它为英雄行为, |
| 305 | but we would not call that person heroic. | 但我们不会称他为英雄 |
| 306 | Because at that point, we are no longer weighing | 因为此时此刻 我们不再重 |
| 307 | moments of good and bad in life, | 生活中的好坏时刻 |
| 308 | we are actively weighing moral thresholds. | 我们正在积极权衡道德门槛。 |
| 309 | And for Churchill, this is the bodies | 对丘吉尔来说 这是尸体 |
| 310 | he must atone for in Bengal | 他必须在孟加拉赎罪 |
| 311 | and the topic of my speech today. | 还有我今天演讲的主题 |
| 312 | At this point, proposition may say, | 此时,提议可能说, |
| 313 | well, this is an impossibly high standard. | 这个标准太高了 |
| 314 | But it is not. | 但事实并非如此。 |
| 315 | We do not struggle to identify heroes when they exist. | 当英雄存在时,我们并不为识别英雄而奋斗。 |
| 316 | People like Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs | 像道格拉斯·巴德尔这样的人 失去了双腿 |
| 317 | and still flew on during the Battle of Britain. | 在不列颠战役中依然飞翔 |
| 318 | Desmond Doss, who saved lives without taking them. | 德斯蒙德·多斯,他拯救了生命而不夺走他们. |
| 319 | And if you need more examples, | 如果你需要更多的例子, |
| 320 | I urge you to simply walk through the dozens of memorials | 我劝你走过数十座纪念堂 |
| 321 | within our own colleges | 在我们自己的学院里 |
| 322 | that list the names of these heroes. | 上面列出了这些英雄的名字 |
| 323 | So the standard in this debate is not unclear | 所以这次辩论的标准并不清楚 |
| 324 | and it is not high. | 却不高。 |
| 325 | Which brings us to the point where proposition's case | 这让我们想到了提案的理由 |
| 326 | stops being rhetorical and starts being historical. | 停止夸夸其谈,开始成为历史。 |
| 327 | Because if there's any single episode | 因为如果有单一的一集 |
| 328 | that tells us whether Winston Churchill's life | 这告诉我们温斯顿·丘吉尔的一生 |
| 329 | was heroic, it is the Bengal famine. | 是孟加拉饥荒, |
| 330 | And no amount of speech making tonight | 今晚没有太多的演讲 |
| 331 | will feed three million people who are left to starve. | {\fn华文楷体\fs16\1cHE0E0E0}能养活三百万饿死的人 {\fn华文楷体\fs16\1cHE0E0E0}我们不会放过你的 |
| 332 | Let me begin with what Bengal looked like. | 让我从孟加拉人的样子开始。 |
| 333 | In October 1943, | 1943年10月,任,. |
| 334 | the AP reported from Dhaka | 达卡报告的《附加议定书》 |
| 335 | that the unclaimed body of a Hindu boy | 一个印度教男孩的无名尸体 |
| 336 | about 12 years old was found | 12岁左右被发现 |
| 337 | lying in front of a government grain shop | 躺在政府粮店前 |
| 338 | in Narayanganj. | 在纳拉扬甘杰 |
| 339 | His body had been devoured by jackals and vultures | 他的身体被狼和秃鹰吞噬 |
| 340 | as he was alive, starving on the ground. | 他活着,在地上挨饿 |
| 341 | Too weak to move | 太弱不能移动 |
| 342 | and too weak to flee. | 和太虚弱无法逃离。 |
| 343 | On the roadside, relief worker Sister Dolores | 在路边,救济工Dolores修女 |
| 344 | found a woman groaning in agony. | 发现一个女人在痛苦中呻吟 |
| 345 | When she approached, she realized | 当她接近,她意识到 |
| 346 | the woman's eyes were gone. | 那个女人的眼睛不见了 |
| 347 | Both eye sockets were open wounds | 两只眼睛都开着伤口 |
| 348 | full of maggots. | 满是蛆. |
| 349 | The woman had been alive | 那个女人还活着 |
| 350 | as they ate through her face | 当他们从她脸上吃掉 |
| 351 | and she was too weak to resist. | 她太虚弱无法抗拒 |
| 352 | These are not metaphors. | 这些不是比喻。 |
| 353 | This is reality | 这是现实 |
| 354 | in 1943. | 1943年时. |
| 355 | And what I want to make absolutely clear in this argument | 我想在这场争论中说清楚 |
| 356 | is that this famine was not inevitable. | 这场饥荒并不是不可避免的。 |
| 357 | It was the result of a predictable economic | 这是经济可以预测的结果 |
| 358 | collapse, exacerbated by deliberate | 倒闭,因故意 |
| 359 | policy decisions that Churchill is directly | 丘吉尔直接作出的政策决定 |
| 360 | responsible for. | 负责。 |
| 361 | Here's how it began. | 就是这样开始的 |
| 362 | By late 1942, Bengal was under the strain | 到1942年末,孟加拉人已经承受了压力 |
| 363 | of a wartime economy. | 战争时期的经济。 |
| 364 | Inflation was rising sharply. | 通货膨胀急剧上升。 |
| 365 | The bizarre bill rate sat at around 7% | 奇异的账单率大约为7% |
| 366 | while bank deposit rates were around 2%. | 而银行存款利率约为2%。 |
| 367 | And I know Mr. Youssef used to work at Goldman | 我知道尤瑟夫先生以前在高曼工作过 |
| 368 | so I'm sure he understands what that means. | 所以我肯定他明白这是什么意思 |
| 369 | That rice, not bonds or savings, became | 大米,不是债券或储蓄,变成了 |
| 370 | the most profitable place to store wealth. | 最有利可图的地方储存财富。 |
| 371 | So naturally, anyone who had money | 很自然,有钱的人 |
| 372 | began to do so. | 开始这样做。 |
| 373 | At the same time, | 同时, |
| 374 | British wartime policies created | 英国的战时政策 |
| 375 | priority classes in urban centers | 城市中心的重点班级 |
| 376 | like Kolkata for workers in war industries | 像加尔各答的工人在战争工业 |
| 377 | whose wages rose and whose access | 其工资上升,其获得 |
| 378 | to food was protected by the empire. | 食物被帝国保护 |
| 379 | But for over 90% of the Bengali | 但对于90%以上的孟加拉人来说 |
| 380 | population of agricultural | 农业人口 |
| 381 | laborers, fishermen, artisans, | 工人、渔民、工匠、 |
| 382 | there was no increase in purchasing | 采购没有增加 |
| 383 | power. | 权力。 |
| 384 | They produced food but they | 他们生产食物,但他们 |
| 385 | could not afford it. | 买不起 |
| 386 | So the poor | 所以穷人 |
| 387 | were priced out. | 被定价了。 |
| 388 | Starvation | 饥饿 |
| 389 | became visible. | 变得明显。 |
| 390 | Panic | 恐慌 |
| 391 | accelerated hoarding and the market | 加速囤积和市场 |
| 392 | collapsed. | 崩溃了 |
| 393 | Amartya | 阿玛蒂亚 |
| 394 | Sen once famously said that no | 森有一次很出名地说没有 |
| 395 | famine has ever taken place in the history | 历史上发生过饥荒 |
| 396 | of the world in a functioning democracy | 在世界任何有效民主中 |
| 397 | because in such situations, accountability | 因为在这种情况下,问责制 |
| 398 | forces intervention. | 部队干预。 |
| 399 | But instead of intervening to stabilize prices, | 而不是为了稳定价格而干预 |
| 400 | redistribute food, or protect rural | 或保护农村 |
| 401 | incomes, British policy poured fuel | 收入,英国政策注入燃料 |
| 402 | into the fire. | 进入火中。 |
| 403 | What did the British do? | 英国人做了什么? |
| 404 | First, after Japan captured | 首先,日本俘虏之后 |
| 405 | Burma in early 1942, the British | 1942年初的缅甸,英国人 |
| 406 | government implemented what it called denial | 政府执行了所谓的否认 |
| 407 | policies in Bengal. | 孟加拉邦的政策。 |
| 408 | To prevent the Japanese | 为了阻止日本人 |
| 409 | from potentially capturing surprise, authorities | 当局可能感到惊讶 |
| 410 | removed or destroyed rice and paddy | 水稻和稻谷被拆除或毁坏 |
| 411 | in coastal districts such as Midnapore, | 在诸如米德纳波尔等沿海地区, |
| 412 | Bakarganj, and Kulna. | 巴卡尔甘杰,和库尔纳。 |
| 413 | Then came the second blow, the boat denial | 然后,第二次袭击,船否认 |
| 414 | policy. | 政策。 |
| 415 | All boats that were capable | 所有有能力的船只 |
| 416 | of carrying over ten people were | 载着十多人 |
| 417 | confiscated, destroyed, or | 没收、销毁或 |
| 418 | otherwise removed. | 以其他方式删除。 |
| 419 | And Bengal was | 孟加拉语是 |
| 420 | a river province. | 一个河流省份。 |
| 421 | Boats were essential | 船是必需的 |
| 422 | infrastructure. | 基础设施。 |
| 423 | So when you take 45,000 | 所以当你拿45,000 |
| 424 | boats, what you end up | 船,你最后会怎样 |
| 425 | with is the destruction of the livelihoods | 他们的生计将遭毁灭, |
| 426 | of fishermen, crippled food | 渔民、残废食品 |
| 427 | distribution, and dramatically increased | 分配,大幅度增加 |
| 428 | transport costs. | 运输费用。 |
| 429 | And the result, well, | 结果呢? |
| 430 | it was what you would expect. | 这是你所期望的。 |
| 431 | People sold their tools, | 人们卖掉工具 |
| 432 | then their homes, then their | 然后是他们的家,然后是他们的家, |
| 433 | land. | 陆地。 |
| 434 | And when there was nothing left to sell, | 当没有什么可以卖, |
| 435 | they walked, sometimes for days, | 他们走了,有时几天, |
| 436 | to cities like Kolkata, dragging | 到加尔各答等城市,拖拽 |
| 437 | corpses onto the streets in hopes of | 尸体上街,希望 |
| 438 | sweet mercy from their colonizers, | 他们的殖民者的慈悲, |
| 439 | for food and for scripts, | 食物和剧本, |
| 440 | or if nothing else, death among | 或者,如果没有别的东西,死亡在 |
| 441 | others as opposed to alone. | 而不是一个人 |
| 442 | And all of this happened while the British | 这一切发生在英国人 |
| 443 | remained in control. | 继续控制。 |
| 444 | Which now brings us | 现在又来了 |
| 445 | to the question of responsibility. | 责任问题。 |
| 446 | First, even if Churchill was distant, | 首先,即使丘吉尔很遥远, |
| 447 | Bengal was a colony. | 孟加拉是一个殖民地。 |
| 448 | Every law, | 每一个法律, |
| 449 | decision, and government policy was | 政府的政策是 |
| 450 | controlled, especially during wartime, | 特别是在战时, |
| 451 | by London and the war cabinet. | 伦敦和战争内阁。 |
| 452 | So at face value, in the same way that | 所以,在面值, 同样的方式 |
| 453 | being the face of the empire gives you moral | 作为帝国的面孔 让你道德 |
| 454 | credit for hope on their side of the house, | 感谢在他们家的希望, |
| 455 | it means a duty of care that matters | 意思是谨慎的责任 |
| 456 | on ours. | 我们的。 |
| 457 | But Churchill was not | 但丘吉尔不是 |
| 458 | just a distant bystander. | 只是一个遥远的旁观者。 |
| 459 | He knew that this was happening. | 他知道这是真的 |
| 460 | Senior | 高级 |
| 461 | officials warned him repeatedly. | 官员一再警告他。 |
| 462 | The | 那个 |
| 463 | viceroy, Lorne Linlithgow, pressed London | 洛恩·林利思高 副州长 伦敦 |
| 464 | for emergency grain shipments, Leo Amory, | 紧急粮食运输,利奥·阿莫里, |
| 465 | the secretary of state, wrote urgently | 国务卿写了紧急信 |
| 466 | that people were starving and that relief was needed | 人们正在挨饿,需要救济 |
| 467 | immediately. | 马上 |
| 468 | And to all of this, | 对于这一切, |
| 469 | Churchill responded with delay, | 丘吉尔反应迟缓, |
| 470 | obstruction, and contempt. | 阻挠和蔑视。 |
| 471 | In his own words, recorded by the secretary of state, | 用他自己的话 由国务卿记录 |
| 472 | Churchill dismissed the crisis by asking | 丘吉尔拒绝了危机,问 |
| 473 | why, if food was so scarce, | 为什么,如果食物如此稀缺, |
| 474 | Gandhi had not starved yet, | 甘地还没有饿死 |
| 475 | or complained that Indians were breeding | 或者抱怨印第安人在繁殖 |
| 476 | like rabbits. | 像兔子一样 |
| 477 | And these aren't just | 这些不只是 |
| 478 | throwaway insults. | 丢弃的侮辱。 |
| 479 | They are moral | 他们是道德的 |
| 480 | evidence to Churchill's direct culpability | 证明丘吉尔的直接罪责 |
| 481 | in perpetration of this atrocity. | 犯下这种暴行。 |
| 482 | Now, they might say in response, | 现在,他们可能会说 作为回应, |
| 483 | sorry, I thought it was 14-minute speeches, | 对不起 我以为是14分钟的演讲 |
| 484 | that Britain was fighting for survival. | 英国为生存而战 |
| 485 | Grain | 谷物 |
| 486 | was needed elsewhere in Europe, maybe in the Balkans, | 需要在欧洲其他地方,也许在巴尔干, |
| 487 | and the shipping was scarce. | 而船运则稀少。 |
| 488 | But by | 不过 |
| 489 | mid-1943, the war had reached | 1943年中,战争已经到来 |
| 490 | a turning point. | 一个转折点。 |
| 491 | The German U-boat campaign | 德国U型潜艇战役 |
| 492 | in the Atlantic had been | 在大西洋上,曾经 |
| 493 | decisively broken. | 断了 |
| 494 | Black May forced | 黑五月强迫 |
| 495 | on its to withdraw submarines | 撤退潜艇 |
| 496 | after suffering catastrophic losses. | 在遭受灾难性损失之后 |
| 497 | In the Pacific, the US had expelled | 在太平洋,美国驱逐了 |
| 498 | Japanese forces from Guadalcanal and | 来自瓜达尔卡纳尔和 |
| 499 | the Solomon Islands. | 所罗门群岛。 |
| 500 | Japan could no | 日本不会的 |
| 501 | longer seriously threaten allied shipping lanes. | 更严重威胁盟军航道 |
| 502 | And this doesn't mean the war was over, | 这并不意味着战争已经结束了 |
| 503 | but it does mean the argument that shipping relief | 但是这确实意味着 航运救济 |
| 504 | poses an existential threat to war | 对战争构成生存威胁 |
| 505 | efforts no longer holds. | 努力已经停止。 |
| 506 | At the | 在那个 |
| 507 | same time, the Balkans were still under Nazi | 同时,巴尔干地区仍在纳粹统治之下 |
| 508 | occupation, meaning there couldn't be famine relief. | 也就是说不可能有饥荒救济 |
| 509 | And here's the thing that they won't tell you. | 他们不会告诉你的 |
| 510 | In 1943, Churchill himself | 1943年,丘吉尔本人 |
| 511 | directly decreed a diversion of Indian | 直接下令转移印度人 |
| 512 | registered ships to the North Atlantic | 向北大西洋的注册船舶 |
| 513 | supply effort, cutting Bengal's shipping | 供应努力,切断孟加拉的航运 |
| 514 | capacity by around 60% against | 大约60%的产能 |
| 515 | the advice of the secretary of state | 国务卿的建议 |
| 516 | and others within his war cabinet. | 以及他战争内阁中的其他人物 |
| 517 | By 1944, Britain had | 到1944年,英国 |
| 518 | so much shipping capacity in the North | 北方有这么多的航运能力 |
| 519 | Atlantic that cargo ships were | 大西洋的货船 |
| 520 | literally sailing half empty. | 从字面上说,航行半空。 |
| 521 | So when | 所以什么时候 |
| 522 | the government says that there was no shipping, which they might, | 政府说,没有航运, 他们可能, |
| 523 | I don't know if they're prepared, what they're really saying | 我不知道他们有没有准备好,他们到底在说什么 |
| 524 | is that Churchill over-diverted out of fear | 是丘吉尔因恐惧过度溺水 |
| 525 | and did not correct course when | 并且没有纠正路线 |
| 526 | that fear proved unfounded, breaking | 恐惧证明是没有根据的 打破了 |
| 527 | rule two of heroism. | 英雄主义的规则二 |
| 528 | During 1942 to 43, | 1942至43年间, |
| 529 | India experienced a net export of | 印度净出口 |
| 530 | approximately 360,000 | 约360 000人 |
| 531 | tons of grain. | 粮食吨。 |
| 532 | When relief finally | 当解脱终于 |
| 533 | came in 1944, it amounted | 1944年来,就等于 |
| 534 | to only 80,000 tons, which | 至仅80 000吨,即 |
| 535 | wasn't even enough to feed the Indian army | 连印度军队都不够养活 |
| 536 | stationed in India. | 驻印度. |
| 537 | By contrast, | 相比之下, |
| 538 | Britain imported millions | 英国进口百万 |
| 539 | of tons of grain during the same period | 同期粮食吨数 |
| 540 | from the US and Canada. | 来自美国和加拿大 |
| 541 | So even if I'm being incredibly, | 所以,即使我令人难以置信, |
| 542 | incredibly charitable, | 令人难以置信的慈善, |
| 543 | this is the moral arithmetic that Churchill | 这是丘吉尔的道德算术 |
| 544 | chose. | 选择。 |
| 545 | Speculative, future | 投机,未来 |
| 546 | benefit for a | 养恤金 |
| 547 | number of people that was less, over | 人数少,超过 |
| 548 | certain, present death for millions. | 当然,现在的死亡为数百万。 |
| 549 | And ultimately, this is why | 最后,这就是为什么 |
| 550 | responsibility can't just be washed | 责任不能只是冲洗 |
| 551 | away by saying things like hope | 说出希望之类的话 |
| 552 | by bantering to the fact that Churchill was one of | 丘吉尔是 |
| 553 | the greatest Brits ever. | 最伟大的英国人 |
| 554 | He might have been | 他可能已经 |
| 555 | one of the greatest Brits ever, but I don't think that | 有史以来最伟大的英国人之一, 但我不认为 |
| 556 | excuses the three million people that died. | 为三百万死难者辩解 |
| 557 | Now, I could have spent time in this | 现在,我本来可以花时间在这 |
| 558 | speech elsewhere, as I'm sure you guys are probably thinking. | 在别处讲话,我敢肯定,你们可能在思考。 |
| 559 | I could have talked about Churchill's broader | 我本可以谈谈丘吉尔的宽度 |
| 560 | record across the empire, because Bengal | 整个帝国都有记录 因为孟加拉人 |
| 561 | was by far from the only place | 远在遥远的地方 |
| 562 | where he treated colonized lives as expendable. | 在那里,他把殖民者的生活当作牺牲品。 |
| 563 | I could have talked about how, as War Secretary, | 作为战争部长 我本来可以说 |
| 564 | he wrote that he was strongly in | 他写道,他强烈的在 |
| 565 | favor of using poisoned gas against | 喜欢用毒气对抗 |
| 566 | uncivilized tribes, because his words, | 不文明的部落,因为他的话, |
| 567 | the moral effect, would be to spread | 道德效应,就是传播 |
| 568 | lively terror. | 生动恐怖. |
| 569 | And any of those | 和其中任何一点 |
| 570 | points could be a separate argument tonight, and some | 点可以是一个单独的争论 今晚,一些 |
| 571 | of these will be made later on. | 这些建议将在稍后提出。 |
| 572 | But I am not going to do that, because I want to make | 但我不会这样做,因为我想 |
| 573 | one thing unmistakably clear. | 有一件事是绝对清楚的 |
| 574 | When they excuse his actions | 当他们原谅他的行为时 |
| 575 | because he gave hope, | 因为他给了希望, |
| 576 | even if you knew nothing else about Churchill, | 即使你对丘吉尔一无所知 |
| 577 | even if you wiped the rest of his record | 即使你抹去了他剩下的记录 |
| 578 | clean and kept every other good deed he did | 保持他所做的一切善事 |
| 579 | in mind, there is no excuse. | 考虑到这一点,没有借口。 |
| 580 | No excuse tonight that is | 今晚没有借口了 |
| 581 | sufficient to wash the hands | 足够洗手了 |
| 582 | of the blood of three million | 300万的血迹 |
| 583 | Bengali citizens. | 孟加拉公民. |
| 584 | Ten times | 十个 |
| 585 | more than the total death | 超过死亡总数 |
| 586 | toll the British faced through the entire | 整个英国都面临损失 |
| 587 | war, in one year! | 战争,一年之内! |
| 588 | In one year. | 一年之内 |
| 589 | Winston | 温斯顿 |
| 590 | Churchill was a powerful man, and powerful | 丘吉尔是一个强大的人, 和强大的 |
| 591 | men are often judged by the decisions they | 男子往往根据他们的决定受到评判。 |
| 592 | make. | 做起来。 |
| 593 | In Britain, Churchill delivered | 在英国,丘吉尔交付 |
| 594 | brilliant speeches. | 精彩的演讲。 |
| 595 | In India, | 在印度, |
| 596 | Churchill delivered murderous silence. | 丘吉尔给了谋杀的沉默。 |
| 597 | So as you walk out of these doors tonight, | 所以当你今晚走出这些门时 |
| 598 | remember this. | 记住这一点。 |
| 599 | The human history | 人类历史 |
| 600 | is filled with tales of the | 充满了传说 |
| 601 | strong, the brave, and the kind. | 强者,勇者,与类也. |
| 602 | We glamorize the strong, | 我们迷惑强者, |
| 603 | for we wish to conquer our enemies. | 因为我们希望征服我们的敌人。 |
| 604 | We glamorize the brave, for we wish to conquer | 我们闪耀勇士,因为我们想要征服 |
| 605 | our demons. | 我们的恶魔。 |
| 606 | And we glamorize the kind, | 我们闪耀这种, |
| 607 | for we wish to conquer our selfishness. | 因为我们想征服我们的自私 |
| 608 | Winston Churchill, on occasion, showed | 温斯顿·丘吉尔偶尔会出现 |
| 609 | flashes of these traits. | 这些特性的闪光。 |
| 610 | But these flashes | 但是这些闪光 |
| 611 | were shadowed by his evils. | 被他的罪恶所笼罩 |
| 612 | This was a man who used his | 这是一个男人谁用他的 |
| 613 | strength to destroy the weak, performed | 摧毁弱者的力量,表现 |
| 614 | bravery to hold | 勇于坚守 |
| 615 | to his power, and weaponized | 他的力量,并武器化 |
| 616 | the kindness of the meek for his own ends. | 温柔的善良为他自己的目的。 |
| 617 | The halls of history are filled | 历史的大厅都满了 |
| 618 | with corpses of his consequences. | 带着他的后果的尸体 |
| 619 | The label of hero is not | 英雄的标签不是 |
| 620 | a moniker we give to the callous, nor | 我们给冷酷无情的人一个莫尼克尔 |
| 621 | is it a label we espouse to the rhetorical. | 这是我们在夸夸其谈的标签。 |
| 622 | To allow Mr. Churchill to | 允许丘吉尔先生 |
| 623 | stand in the hall of heroes is to | 站在英雄的大厅 |
| 624 | allow the putrid and sickening smell of | 让你闻到恶心的味道 |
| 625 | death to infect the memory | 死亡感染记忆 |
| 626 | of our civilization. | 我们的文明。 |
| 627 | There are heroes | 这里有英雄 |
| 628 | amongst us. | 在我们中间 |
| 629 | Let this intruder be banished | 让这个入侵者被放逐 |
| 630 | from our presence. | 从我们的存在。 |
| 631 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 632 | Next, I would like to welcome Mr. Zia | 接下来,我要欢迎齐亚先生。 |
| 633 | Youssef for the proposition | 尤瑟夫的命题 |
| 634 | side. | 侧面。 |
| 635 | Good evening, everyone. | 大家晚上好,我们走 |
| 636 | I'm going to speak in favor of the motion | 我赞成这个动议 |
| 637 | that Winston Churchill is | 温斯顿·丘吉尔是 |
| 638 | a hero. | 一个英雄。 |
| 639 | So let's start by | 所以,让我们开始 |
| 640 | defining the term according to the | 根据 |
| 641 | Oxford dictionary. | 牛津词典. |
| 642 | A hero is somebody who is admired | 英雄就是受人钦佩的人 |
| 643 | for their courage, | 他们的勇气, |
| 644 | for their noble qualities, and their | 他们的高尚品质和 |
| 645 | outstanding achievement. | 突出成就。 |
| 646 | Not for | 不是为 |
| 647 | being perfect, not for being | 完美,而不是因为自己 |
| 648 | a saint, not for | 一个圣人,不是因为 |
| 649 | you know, moral purity | 你知道,道德纯洁 |
| 650 | decades after the event from people | 事发数十年后 |
| 651 | who scroll through their iPhones. | 他们通过他们的iPhone滚动。 |
| 652 | Ultimately, what this comes | 归根结底,会怎样 |
| 653 | down to is, Winston | 归根结底,温斯顿 |
| 654 | Churchill was probably the most | 丘吉尔是最厉害的 |
| 655 | courageous, inspirational Brit | 勇敢,鼓舞人心的英国人 |
| 656 | who ever lived. | 谁曾经活着。 |
| 657 | And, you know, this really | 而且,你知道,这个真的 |
| 658 | matters at this point in time. | 此时此刻很重要。 |
| 659 | Because in the decades since World | 因为在世界之后的几十年里 |
| 660 | War II, British people | 二战,英国人民 |
| 661 | have revered, indeed | 确已赞颂真主, |
| 662 | admired Sir Winston Churchill. | 钦佩温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士 |
| 663 | His statue dominates | 他的雕像占主导地位 |
| 664 | Parliament Square. | 议会广场. |
| 665 | And that matters because in | 这很重要,因为 |
| 666 | admiring Winston Churchill, | 钦佩温斯顿·丘吉尔, |
| 667 | we are saying as a society | 我们说作为一个社会 |
| 668 | and as a nation that he | 作为国家,他 |
| 669 | embodies the qualities and the | 体现品质和 |
| 670 | virtues that we as a society | 我们作为一个社会的美德 |
| 671 | and as a nation aspire to. | 和作为一个民族渴望的。 |
| 672 | And that we as individuals | 作为个人 |
| 673 | in our own small way | 以我们自己的小方式 |
| 674 | may seek to emulate. | 可能试图效仿。 |
| 675 | So by turning our back on that | 所以,通过我们的背弃 |
| 676 | moral statement, | 道德声明, |
| 677 | we're not simply reassessing a man, | 我们不只是在重新评估一个人 |
| 678 | we are repudiating an entire | 我们正在否定一个整体 |
| 679 | value system. | 价值系统。 |
| 680 | So this discussion we're having here tonight, | 所以今晚我们在这里讨论 |
| 681 | I know those are the jokes and a lot of fun, | 我知道这些是笑话和很多乐趣, |
| 682 | but this is fundamental. | 但这是根本的。 |
| 683 | This isn't just academic, | 这不仅仅是学术性的, |
| 684 | it's civilizational. | 这是文明的。 |
| 685 | So let's talk about the second part of that definition, | 我们来谈谈定义的第二部分 |
| 686 | courage. | 勇敢点 |
| 687 | Winston Churchill | 温斯顿·丘吉尔 |
| 688 | put it best, he said, courage | 最好还是说勇气 |
| 689 | is rightly esteemed to be the first | 被誉为第一 |
| 690 | of human qualities because it is the quality | 人的品质,因为它是质量 |
| 691 | that guarantees | 保证 |
| 692 | all others. | 其他人都一样 |
| 693 | He was spot on | 他是现场 |
| 694 | about that. | 关于那个。 |
| 695 | Throughout his | 在他的整个 |
| 696 | life, I mean, if you go through his | 生活,我的意思是,如果你通过他 |
| 697 | life, you know, you could create a feature | 生命,你知道,你可以创造一个特色 |
| 698 | film, but with | 电影,但 |
| 699 | every five years of his adult life. | 每五年一次的成人生活。 |
| 700 | But let's give a couple of examples. | 但举数例. |
| 701 | Let's emphasize again the fact | 让我们再次强调这个事实 |
| 702 | on the 15th of November, 1899, | 1899年11月15号, |
| 703 | a 25 year old war correspondent | 25岁的战争记者 |
| 704 | during the Boel War was captured | 在布尔战争中被俘虏 |
| 705 | and held as a | 作为《京都议定书》 |
| 706 | prisoner of war. | 战俘。 |
| 707 | Now that would have been the end | 现在,这将是结束 |
| 708 | of the story for | 故事为 |
| 709 | many people, lesser people. | 很多人,少一点的人。 |
| 710 | Not for Winston. | 不为温斯顿。 |
| 711 | In the depths of the night, he managed | 在深夜,他设法 |
| 712 | to escape and | 逃跑和 |
| 713 | you know, seemingly surrounded, seemingly | 你知道,似乎被包围,似乎 |
| 714 | with no way out. | 没有出路。 |
| 715 | He | |
| 716 | would hide during the day, spend the nights | 在白天躲起来,在晚上 |
| 717 | scurrying through guards | 穿梭在守卫中 |
| 718 | and through gates. | 穿过大门 |
| 719 | He had virtually no money, he had no | 他几乎没有钱,他没有 |
| 720 | map, and yet he survived that | 但是他活了下来 |
| 721 | month and he did successfully | 一个月,他做到了成功 |
| 722 | escape. | 逃脱。 |
| 723 | Now that was at age 25, just | 现在,那是在25岁,只是 |
| 724 | a glimpse into the man that | 直视那个人 |
| 725 | he would eventually become. | 他终究会变成这样 |
| 726 | We can also talk about | 我们也可以谈谈 |
| 727 | sacrifice. | 牺牲。 |
| 728 | You know, during | 你知道,期间 |
| 729 | the Blitz campaign, let's fast forward a little | 闪电战,快一点 |
| 730 | bit, during the height of that German | 在那个德国人的高度上 |
| 731 | bombing campaign that devastated | 轰炸行动 |
| 732 | London in so many ways, but not in the most | 伦敦在很多方面,但大多数方面 |
| 733 | crucial way. | 关键的方式。 |
| 734 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 735 | Because | 因为 |
| 736 | at the height of that campaign, Winston Churchill | 在这场战役的高潮中,温斯顿·丘吉尔 |
| 737 | got onto the roofs | 上了屋顶 |
| 738 | in London. | 在伦敦 |
| 739 | And as the air raid sirens | 当空袭警笛响起 |
| 740 | wailed and howled, | 呐喊着, |
| 741 | as the city shook under | 当城市震动时, |
| 742 | unimaginable terror, | 难以想象的恐怖 |
| 743 | his aides and his security | 他的助手和保安 |
| 744 | staff implored him | 工作人员恳求他 |
| 745 | to get off the roofs, said the | 离开屋顶,说 |
| 746 | Prime Minister, you cannot do this. | 总理,你不能这么做 |
| 747 | And he said, look, I'm not going to | 他说,你看,我不会 |
| 748 | make decisions as a leader that put | 作为领导者作出决定 |
| 749 | my people in mortal danger | 我的人有生命危险 |
| 750 | without sharing that | 没有分享 |
| 751 | danger with them. | 危险与他们。 |
| 752 | He felt | 他觉得 |
| 753 | it was critical and important | 这是关键和重要的 |
| 754 | that he was visible, resolute, | 他确是显赫的,确是坚定的, |
| 755 | and exposed. | 并暴露出来。 |
| 756 | And by the way, | 顺便说一句 |
| 757 | what a contrast that is | 何谓的对比 |
| 758 | to Prime Ministers of recent years. | 向近年来的总理致谢。 |
| 759 | And, you know, | 还有,你知道, |
| 760 | Winston Churchill also understood | 温斯顿·丘吉尔也明白 |
| 761 | that when he was talking about defending | 当他谈论辩护时 |
| 762 | Britain at all costs, | 英国不惜一切代价 |
| 763 | Britain, for him, was not simply a place | 对于他来说,英国不仅仅是一个地方 |
| 764 | on the map, not just a piece of territory. | 在地图上,不只是一块领土。 |
| 765 | It was a | 这是一个 |
| 766 | civilization. | 人类文明 |
| 767 | It represented | 它代表 |
| 768 | parliamentary democracy, the | 议会民主 |
| 769 | rule of law, equality | 法治、平等 |
| 770 | before that law, the | 在该法律之前, |
| 771 | dignity of the individual. | 个人尊严。 |
| 772 | And | 还有 |
| 773 | in doing so, | 为此, |
| 774 | he ensured that everybody understood | 他确保每个人都明白 |
| 775 | how important it was that Britain | 英国有多重要? |
| 776 | stood firm, because for him, | 站稳了,因为他 |
| 777 | Nazism wasn't simply a military | 纳粹主义不仅仅是一个军事 |
| 778 | threat, it was a moral | 威胁,这是道德 |
| 779 | one. | 一个 |
| 780 | And more importantly, | 更重要的是, |
| 781 | he inspired an entire nation | 他鼓舞了整个国家 |
| 782 | to share that | 分享这一点 |
| 783 | view. | 视图。 |
| 784 | And that's why he said | 这就是为什么他说 |
| 785 | when somebody asked, what is your aim, | 当有人问起,你的目标是什么, |
| 786 | he said, victory. | 他说,胜利。 |
| 787 | Victory at all costs. | 不惜一切代价获得胜利. |
| 788 | Victory | 胜利 |
| 789 | in spite of all terror. | 尽管所有恐怖。 |
| 790 | And you're probably very familiar with | 你也许非常熟悉 |
| 791 | Nietzsche's observation that | 尼采认为 |
| 792 | he who has a why can bear | 谁能忍受, |
| 793 | almost | 差点 |
| 794 | any how. | 随便怎么说 |
| 795 | And | 还有 |
| 796 | that is what Churchill gave | 这就是丘吉尔给的 |
| 797 | the people of this country. | 这个国家的人民。 |
| 798 | That point about Britain being | 英国是 |
| 799 | a civilization worth defending | 一个值得捍卫的文明 |
| 800 | to the death, wherever that might | 死亡,无论可能在哪里 |
| 801 | be, was something he made | 是,他制造的东西 |
| 802 | people in this country believe | 这个国家的人们相信 |
| 803 | in their bones. | 他们的骨头。 |
| 804 | Now, again, that is | 现在,再次,这是 |
| 805 | hard for all of us to understand because | 我们很难理解 因为 |
| 806 | we haven't had political leadership | 我们没有政治领导权 |
| 807 | in this country for such a long | 这个国家这么长时间 |
| 808 | time. | 时间。 |
| 809 | And | 还有 |
| 810 | perhaps Winston | 也许温斯顿 |
| 811 | Churchill's most heroic quality | 丘吉尔最英勇的品格 |
| 812 | was the fact that he | 事实是,他 |
| 813 | made seemingly ordinary people | 造就了看起来很普通的人 |
| 814 | extraordinary. | 非常特别 |
| 815 | And you can read about this in the works | 你可以在作品中读到这一点 |
| 816 | of everyone from Nasim Taleb | 纳西姆·塔莱布 |
| 817 | to, you know, whichever | 要,你知道,无论 |
| 818 | academic, you know, | 学术,你知道, |
| 819 | any academic you | 任何学术你 |
| 820 | might want to speak of who has spoken of | 也许想谈谈是谁说的 |
| 821 | the impact of or the lack | 影响或缺失 |
| 822 | of impact, for example, the Blitz | 例如闪光灯 |
| 823 | had on the UK. | 在英国。 |
| 824 | But in making | 但是在制作中 |
| 825 | ordinary people | 普通民众 |
| 826 | extraordinary, what he said, you know, | 非常特别,他说,你知道, |
| 827 | the gambit, the pitch Winston | 雄伟,投球 温斯顿 |
| 828 | Churchill made to British people was not that you | 丘吉尔给英国人做的不是你 |
| 829 | are weak and I will save you, | 我将拯救你, |
| 830 | but rather you | 不过你 |
| 831 | are strong and together | 强壮在一起 |
| 832 | we will endure. | 我们会忍耐的 |
| 833 | So, yes, he was flawed. | 所以,是的,他是有缺陷的。 |
| 834 | And sadly, at that time | 可悲的是,当时 |
| 835 | in human history, there was enormous suffering | 在人类历史上, 有着巨大的痛苦 |
| 836 | all over the world. | 遍满世界. |
| 837 | But ultimately, he represents | 但最终,他代表 |
| 838 | something that is incredibly | 令人难以置信的东西 |
| 839 | precious and is indeed | 珍贵而且确实 |
| 840 | extraordinary and underpins | 特别和基础 |
| 841 | everything that is great | 伟大的一切 |
| 842 | about this country and indeed, by the way, | 关于这个国家,事实上,顺便说一句, |
| 843 | this great institution. | 这个伟大的机构。 |
| 844 | No, thank you. | 不 谢谢 |
| 845 | And I will say this too, without | 我也会说,没有 |
| 846 | and I don't genuinely don't wish to be personal | 我并不想成为个人 |
| 847 | here because there is a growing | 这里,因为有一个增长 |
| 848 | movement around the world, sadly, | 可悲的是, 世界各地的运动, |
| 849 | that attempts to try to | 试图 |
| 850 | tear down the legacy | 拆掉遗产 |
| 851 | of Sir Winston Churchill. | 温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士 |
| 852 | And I mean that sincerely. | 我是认真的 |
| 853 | This isn't personal | 这不是私人恩怨 |
| 854 | against anybody. | 对任何人。 |
| 855 | But | 不过 |
| 856 | ultimately, what does that | 最终,这是什么 |
| 857 | represent? | 代表吗? |
| 858 | In my | 在我身边 |
| 859 | humble opinion, it represents an | 谦卑的意见,它代表着 |
| 860 | extraordinary ingratitude. | 特别的忘恩负义。 |
| 861 | It is standing on the shoulders of giants | 它站在巨人的肩膀上 |
| 862 | and calling yourself tall, but perhaps worse, | 自称高,但也许更糟, |
| 863 | gathering a sense of unearned | 收集一种未获得的感觉 |
| 864 | moral superiority garnered | 获得道德优越感 |
| 865 | in a different era and | 在一个不同的时代 |
| 866 | from a totally different | 和完全不同的东西 |
| 867 | moral standard. | 道德标准。 |
| 868 | And in fact, | 事实上, |
| 869 | the very discussions we are having | 我们的讨论本身 |
| 870 | this evening, as enjoyable | 今晚,作为享受 |
| 871 | and as articulate, by the way, | 顺便说一句, |
| 872 | as the | 作为 |
| 873 | opposition are, would not have | 反对是,不会有 |
| 874 | been possible without not just the sacrifice | 没有牺牲就有可能 |
| 875 | of people like Sir Winston Churchill, | 温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士 |
| 876 | but of that entire generation. | 但却是那一代人 |
| 877 | And that is what is really | 这才是真正的 |
| 878 | important to remember. | 记住很重要 |
| 879 | You know, | 你知道吗, |
| 880 | all of this, I want to reemphasize, | 这一切,我想再次强调, |
| 881 | this is not just an academic | 这不仅仅是一个学术 |
| 882 | discussion. | 讨论。 |
| 883 | It is civilizational. | 这是文明的。 |
| 884 | It's going to be defining for | 这将是定义 |
| 885 | the next 100 | 下一个100 |
| 886 | years of people. | 数年的人。 |
| 887 | In 100 years time, | 在100年的时间里, |
| 888 | there will be people in this room and the things | 房间里会有人,还有东西 |
| 889 | that they say will depend on the | 他们说这取决于 |
| 890 | views of people like yourselves. | 像你们这样的人的看法。 |
| 891 | The reality is that | 现实是 |
| 892 | we have incredibly | 我们有惊人的 |
| 893 | difficult threats to deal | 难以应对的威胁 |
| 894 | with as a country today. | 作为今天的国家。 |
| 895 | We have threats abroad. | 我们在国外有威胁。 |
| 896 | My God, we have threats at home. | 天啊 我们家里有威胁 |
| 897 | And | 还有 |
| 898 | we will face those threats not with | 我们将面对这些威胁 |
| 899 | derision, cynicism | 嘲弄、嘲讽 |
| 900 | and self-loathing. | 和自我厌恶。 |
| 901 | We're going to face those | 我们要面对那些 |
| 902 | threats with the courage and | 以勇气和勇气进行威胁 |
| 903 | resolve and fortitude that Sir Winston Churchill | 温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士的决心和毅力 |
| 904 | displayed. | 显示。 |
| 905 | And, you know, | 还有,你知道, |
| 906 | the spirit that got this country through | 国家通过的精神 |
| 907 | its darkest hour is not dead. | 它最黑暗的时刻不是死。 |
| 908 | It lives on in people like yourselves. | 它生活在像你这样的人身上 |
| 909 | Sir Winston Churchill | 温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士 |
| 910 | did embody | 是否体现 |
| 911 | those values | 这些价值 |
| 912 | and those qualities. | 和这些品质。 |
| 913 | And I think by any serious | 我认为任何严肃的 |
| 914 | definition of the term, | 定义该术语, |
| 915 | he was and remains | 他过去和现在 |
| 916 | a hero. | 一个英雄。 |
| 917 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
| 918 | Amazing. | 厉害 |
| 919 | Thank you, Mr. Yusuf, for your amazing | 谢谢你,尤素福先生,你的惊人 |
| 920 | speech. | 说话 |
| 921 | I would | 我会 |
| 922 | next like to invite Mr. Bharath Anantham | 接下来请布哈拉特·阿南坦先生 |
| 923 | to the floor. | 倒 |
| 924 | As we proceed through the inky blackness of judgment, | 当我们在审判的黑暗中前进 |
| 925 | let us not lose sight | 让我们不要视而不见 |
| 926 | of the light of justice. | 正义之光 |
| 927 | For she is tough but fair. | 因为她很坚强但很公平 |
| 928 | Lady Justice hears our excuses | 女法官听到我们的借口 |
| 929 | and calibrates for human frailties. | 和适合人体虚弱的校准 |
| 930 | But though she is blind, | 虽然她是瞎子 |
| 931 | she is not deaf. | 她不是聋子。 |
| 932 | She hears the screams | 她听到尖叫声 |
| 933 | of the starving, the tears | 饥饿和泪水 |
| 934 | of the dying and the cries | 临终和哭泣者, |
| 935 | of the despairing. | 在绝望中。 |
| 936 | She wept | 她哭着 |
| 937 | with the children of Bengal and fought | 与孟加拉儿童并肩作战 |
| 938 | with the soldiers at Dunkirk. | 在敦刻尔克的士兵。 |
| 939 | It is not the place of this house to speak | 这里不是我们家说话的地方 |
| 940 | ill of the dead, but it is the place | 死者的病,但这是地方 |
| 941 | of this house to give judgment to | 这所房子的判断 |
| 942 | justice. | 正义。 |
| 943 | Churchill was many things, but a hero he was not. | 丘吉尔有很多事 但他不是英雄 |
| 944 | For a hero is not just one who did | 因为英雄不仅仅是一个 |
| 945 | good, but one who was good. | 不错,但谁是好的。 |
| 946 | And as the previous speaker says, | 正如前一位发言者所说, |
| 947 | someone we should admire. | 值得我们钦佩的人 |
| 948 | We have proven conclusively that he was not. | 我们已经确凿地证明他不是。 |
| 949 | And maybe we might give him a coin for the sticks, | 也许我们可以给他硬币用于棍子, |
| 950 | but we should not give him a penny | 但我们不应该给他一分钱 |
| 951 | for his plaudits. | 给他的荣耀。 |
| 952 | Reform UK | 改革联合王国 |
| 953 | have found their case woefully inadequate | 发现他们的情况严重不足 |
| 954 | to prove the demanding burden of the motion | 证明动议的沉重负担 |
| 955 | and their arguments do not stand up | 他们的争论是站不住脚的, |
| 956 | to examination. | 检查。 |
| 957 | I'm sorry this isn't | 对不起,这不是 |
| 958 | too bad. | 真遗憾 |
| 959 | I'm going to do | 我会的 |
| 960 | three things in this speech. | 此演说中三事. |
| 961 | First, I'm going | 我先走了,我马上去 |
| 962 | to respond to the main claim of proposition. | 以回应命题的主要主张。 |
| 963 | Next, I'm going to introduce a new | 接下来,我要介绍一个新的 |
| 964 | argument on the harms that the Churchill leadership did | 关于丘吉尔领导人造成的伤害的论点 |
| 965 | domestically. | 在国内。 |
| 966 | And finally, I'm going | 终于,我走了 |
| 967 | to prove why the arguments that we have given | 证明为什么我们给出的论点 |
| 968 | prove conclusively why this is not heroism. | 最终证明为什么这不是英雄主义。 |
| 969 | First, probably | 首先,也许 |
| 970 | the strongest argument that you've heard from these two speakers | 你从这两位演说家那里听到的最强烈的争论 |
| 971 | is that Winston Churchill was a hero | 温斯顿·丘吉尔是个英雄 |
| 972 | because of his role and his courage in the | 因为他的作用和勇气 |
| 973 | Second World War. | 第二次世界大战. |
| 974 | But this narrative | 但是这个故事 |
| 975 | relies on a simplified and selective | 依靠简化和选择性 |
| 976 | memory of history. | 历史记忆。 |
| 977 | One flattened into | 一个扁平 |
| 978 | sound bites, narrowed by repetition, | 声音叮咬,通过重复缩小, |
| 979 | polished by eight decades of myth-making | 被八十年的神话所粉碎 |
| 980 | and Hollywood dramatization. | 和好莱坞戏剧化。 |
| 981 | It is not the full story, and | 这不是完整的故事,和 |
| 982 | it is not an honest one. | 这不是一个诚实的。 |
| 983 | There | 那边 |
| 984 | are several reasons why this argument does not stand up | 这是这个论点站不住脚的几个原因 |
| 985 | to scrutiny. | 检查。 |
| 986 | First, the continuation | 第一,继续 |
| 987 | of the war did not hinge on Churchill | 战争并不取决于丘吉尔 |
| 988 | as an individual. | 作为个人。 |
| 989 | Within the war cabinet | 战争内阁内部 |
| 990 | itself, the decision to fight on commanded | 自己,战斗的决定 命令 |
| 991 | broad cross-party support. | 广泛的跨党派支持。 |
| 992 | Clement | 克莱门特 |
| 993 | Atlee and Arthur Greenwood of Labour voted | 阿特莉和亚瑟・格林伍德的劳工投票 |
| 994 | for continuation. | 继续 |
| 995 | Archibald Sinclair of | 阿奇博尔德·辛克莱 |
| 996 | the Liberal Party voted for continuation. | 自由党投票决定继续执政. |
| 997 | Neville Chamberlain, after he resigned as PM, | 内维尔·张伯伦辞去首相职务后 |
| 998 | supported continuation instead of | 支持继续而不是 |
| 999 | Lord Halifax's proposal for peace talks. | 哈利法克斯勋爵提出的和谈建议. |
| 1000 | Proposition would have you think that | 提案会让你觉得 |
| 1001 | Churchill's charismatic personality | 丘吉尔的魅力人格 |
| 1002 | changed minds and motivated everyone to fight | 改变思想,激励大家战斗 |
| 1003 | on. | 继续 |
| 1004 | But the causal arrow runs the | 但因果箭头在运行 |
| 1005 | other way. | 别的 |
| 1006 | It was because Labour | 是因为工党 |
| 1007 | were already committed to fighting on that they chose | 已经承诺在他们选择的 |
| 1008 | to work under Churchill rather than any | 在丘吉尔下工作,而不是任何 |
| 1009 | other conservative leader. | 其他保守派领袖。 |
| 1010 | The best version of the proposition case is that | 提议案的最好版本是 |
| 1011 | the decision to continue the war makes Churchill a hero | 决定继续战争 让丘吉尔成为英雄 |
| 1012 | because it was a courageous and morally significant | 因为它是一个勇敢和道德意义 |
| 1013 | choice. | 选择。 |
| 1014 | But any war cabinet | 但任何战争内阁 |
| 1015 | independent of Churchill would have made | 与丘吉尔无关 |
| 1016 | this decision because the British people | 因为英国人民 |
| 1017 | at the time were strongly pro-war. | 当时是强烈支持战争的。 |
| 1018 | They had just seen the German army murder | 他们刚刚看到德国军队的谋杀 |
| 1019 | 60,000 civilians in Poland. | 波兰6万平民. |
| 1020 | They'd seen the newsreels of burning buildings. | 他们看到了燃烧建筑的新闻片 |
| 1021 | They had sent their sons to die | 他们派儿子去送死 |
| 1022 | defending France. | 保卫法国 |
| 1023 | The atrocities | 暴行 |
| 1024 | in Europe did not make the British people | 在欧洲,没有使英国人民 |
| 1025 | scared but it made their resolve | 吓坏了,但是他们下定决心了 |
| 1026 | stronger. | 更强。 |
| 1027 | This team would have | 这个团队会 |
| 1028 | you believe that a couple of admittedly | 你相信,夫妇承认 |
| 1029 | really cool, really rhetorical speeches | 真的很酷,真的修辞 |
| 1030 | changed the minds of the people who were already | 改变人们的心思 已经 |
| 1031 | united against a common enemy who had | 联合起来对付共同的敌人 |
| 1032 | already sent their sons to defend Europe. | 已经派他们的儿子去保卫欧洲 |
| 1033 | We are taught to hear Churchill's | 教会我们听丘吉尔的 |
| 1034 | speeches as sparks that ignited national | 演说作为点燃全国的火花 |
| 1035 | will. | 会的 |
| 1036 | But sparks only matter when | 但只有当 |
| 1037 | there is no fire and in 1940 | 没有火,1940年 |
| 1038 | Britain was already burning. | 英国已经在燃烧。 |
| 1039 | Even if you ignore this, most | 即使你无视这一点,大多数 |
| 1040 | of the underlying conditions that led to allied victory | 导致盟军获胜的基本条件 |
| 1041 | in Europe have been independent of Churchill. | 欧洲一直独立于丘吉尔。 |
| 1042 | He was turned down numerous times by the | 他被多次拒绝 |
| 1043 | US. | 美国。 |
| 1044 | It was Pearl Harbor and not persuasion | 是珍珠港,不是劝说 |
| 1045 | that brought them into the war. | 让他们陷入战争 |
| 1046 | Hitler probably attacks | 希特勒可能攻击 |
| 1047 | the Soviet Union regardless of who is in charge | 苏联,无论谁负责 |
| 1048 | of Britain. | 英国 |
| 1049 | Importantly, he was | 重要的是,他是 |
| 1050 | not alone in wanting to fight on. | 不只是想要继续战斗 |
| 1051 | Everyone in British policy making | 英国决策中的每个人 |
| 1052 | {\fn黑体\fs20\shad2\2aH82\3aH20\4aH33\fscx95\3cH592001\be1}我明白 贪婪的胃口 | |
| 1053 | of the Nazi regime would not be sated | 纳粹政权的统治是不会结束的 |
| 1054 | by continental Europe and they could not have | 他们不可能拥有 |
| 1055 | time to consolidate their gains. | 是时候巩固他们的成果了 |
| 1056 | They were | 他们是 |
| 1057 | even clear, selfish interests to continue | 更清楚 自私 继续 |
| 1058 | the war, to be part of the post-war settlement | 战争,成为战后解决方案的一部分 |
| 1059 | dividing up Europe and the colonies. | 瓜分欧洲和殖民地. |
| 1060 | Yes, getting bombed is scary | 是的,被轰炸是可怕的 |
| 1061 | but there was no question that continuing | 但毫无疑问的是, |
| 1062 | the war was in the clear national | 战争在明清时期 |
| 1063 | interest. | 利息 |
| 1064 | Now I know Reform UK might | 现在我知道英国改革可能 |
| 1065 | not care that much about the clear national interest | 根本不在乎明确的国家利益 |
| 1066 | but the people of the time did. | 但当时的民众确实如此。 |
| 1067 | That is why | 这就是为什么 |
| 1068 | Atlee and Greenwood and Chamberlain | 阿特里和格林伍德和张伯伦 |
| 1069 | voted to continue the war, even | 投票决定继续战争 |
| 1070 | independent of Churchill. | 独立于丘吉尔。 |
| 1071 | All | 全体 |
| 1072 | of this is to say that if there was heroism | 如果有英雄主义的话 |
| 1073 | found in 1940, it was not | 在1940年发现,它不是 |
| 1074 | found in the safety of Whitehall, in the bunkers | 在怀特霍尔的安全, 在掩体中发现的 |
| 1075 | of the war rooms and climbing up onto a | 然后爬上战场 |
| 1076 | roof of five minutes one day out of | 5分钟的屋顶 一天出 |
| 1077 | 365. | 365 (英语). |
| 1078 | The heroism in | 英雄主义 |
| 1079 | 1940 was found in the foxholes | 1940年在狐狸洞被发现 |
| 1080 | of Calais, on the beaches of Dunkirk | 在敦刻尔克的海滩上 |
| 1081 | and in burning skies above the channel | 在沸腾的天空中, |
| 1082 | not in the safety of Whitehall. | 不是在白厅的安全。 |
| 1083 | My second broad response to this argument is that | 我对这一论点的第二个广泛答复是: |
| 1084 | Churchill handled the war actually quite poorly | 丘吉尔对战争的处理非常糟糕 |
| 1085 | in many regards, not because of folly | 在许多方面,不是因为愚蠢 |
| 1086 | but sheer arrogance. | 却很傲慢 |
| 1087 | I will point to three | 我要指出三个 |
| 1088 | examples. | 实例。 |
| 1089 | First, as Lord of the | 首先,作为上帝 |
| 1090 | Admiralty, Churchill pushed relentlessly | 海军上将,丘吉尔无情推进 |
| 1091 | for the deployment of British forces to Norway | 在挪威部署英国部队 |
| 1092 | to counter the initial offensive there, despite | 对抗最初的进攻,尽管 |
| 1093 | serious and well-founded opposition from | 严重和有根据的反对 |
| 1094 | senior commanders. | 高级指挥官。 |
| 1095 | Possessed by | 拥有者 |
| 1096 | unshakable faith in the Royal Navy, | 对皇家海军的坚定信念 |
| 1097 | Churchill was obsessed with the idea of a decisive | 丘吉尔沉迷于一个决定性的想法 |
| 1098 | naval landing, especially because Swedish | 特别是因为瑞典语 |
| 1099 | iron ore was being passed through Norwegian | 铁矿石通过挪威 |
| 1100 | ports. | 端口。 |
| 1101 | The result was not strategic | 结果不是战略性的 |
| 1102 | brilliance but catastrophe. | 聪明但灾难。 |
| 1103 | British troops | 英国部队 |
| 1104 | were exposed, massacred, effectively | 被暴露,屠杀, 有效 |
| 1105 | destroyed and crucial attention and | 和重要关注, |
| 1106 | resources were shifted away from the German invasion | 资源从德国入侵转移 |
| 1107 | of France merely weeks later. | 仅仅几周后法国就结束了。 |
| 1108 | Fixation hardened into bad decisions | 固执到坏决定 |
| 1109 | and that hardened into mass graves. | 和坚硬的坟墓。 |
| 1110 | Secondly, Churchill pushed for the | 第二,丘吉尔推动 |
| 1111 | continued deployment of the British Expeditionary Force | 继续部署英国远征部队 |
| 1112 | even when he was told that it was a lost cause. | 即使有人告诉他这是个失败的事业 |
| 1113 | Two weeks before Dunkirk, he was | 在敦刻尔克两周前,他 |
| 1114 | still shipping troops in across the | 仍然运兵过马路 |
| 1115 | channel, who were lost when the HMS | 频道,HMS时丢失的频道 |
| 1116 | Lancaster sank, killing 3,500 | 兰开斯特沉没,死亡3 500人 |
| 1117 | soldiers. | 士兵们 |
| 1118 | Hollywood falsely | 好莱坞假的 |
| 1119 | gave the credit for Admiral | 给将军的功劳 |
| 1120 | Ramsey's Dunkirk decision to the Gary Oldman | 拉姆齐对盖瑞·奥德曼的决定 |
| 1121 | version of Churchill, but the real version | 丘吉尔版本,但真实版本 |
| 1122 | of Churchill was very much responsible for | 丘吉尔对此非常负责 |
| 1123 | most of the British army being stranded when France | 大部分英国军队被困在法国 |
| 1124 | fell. | 掉下来了 |
| 1125 | Deciding to fight on | 决定继续战斗 |
| 1126 | stops being courageous and heroic when your | 停止勇敢和英勇 当你 |
| 1127 | every decision is to fight. | 每一个决定都是战斗 |
| 1128 | As with Norway, obsession blinded | 和挪威一样,痴迷盲了 |
| 1129 | command and arrogance did the | 命令和自负 |
| 1130 | killing. | 杀人 |
| 1131 | The final set of examples | 最后一组实例 |
| 1132 | is the one I find personally most difficult | 是我个人最难找到的 |
| 1133 | to speak about because if this house credits | 说因为如果这房子的信用 |
| 1134 | Churchill with liberating Europe, they must also | 丘吉尔解放了欧洲 他们也必须 |
| 1135 | reckon with his responsibility for the collapse | 考虑一下他对于崩溃的责任 |
| 1136 | of British power in Asia. | 英国在亚洲的权力。 |
| 1137 | His racist underestimation of the Japanese | 他对日本人的种族主义低估 |
| 1138 | was matched only by his uncritical | 他的不批判性 |
| 1139 | faith in the glory of empire. | 相信帝国的荣耀 |
| 1140 | The fortifications in Singapore, for example, | 例如新加坡的防御工事, |
| 1141 | faced completely the wrong way because it was thought | 面对完全错误的方式,因为它被思考 |
| 1142 | that the Japanese could not possibly get through the | 日本人不可能通过 |
| 1143 | Malaysian jungle. | 马来西亚丛林. |
| 1144 | The peninsula was left undefended | 半岛无人防守 |
| 1145 | because they thought the Japanese couldn't pass tanks | 因为日本人不能通过坦克 |
| 1146 | through and the Japanese killed them on bicycles. | 和日本人用自行车杀死他们。 |
| 1147 | You might ask, why is any | 你可能会问, 为什么是任何 |
| 1148 | of this Churchill's fault? | 丘吉尔的错? |
| 1149 | But if there is any | 但是如果有的话 |
| 1150 | doubt about responsibility and where it lay, | 怀疑责任和责任所在 |
| 1151 | Churchill himself removed that doubt when | 丘吉尔本人消除了这种怀疑 当 |
| 1152 | after the war he said that he personally | 战后,他说他个人 |
| 1153 | should have ensured Singapore's defences | 应保证新加坡的防卫 |
| 1154 | given his particular interest in the naval base | 鉴于他对海军基地特别感兴趣 |
| 1155 | there in the interwar period. | 在战争期间 |
| 1156 | He wrote | 他写道 |
| 1157 | and I quote, the possibility | 我引用,这个可能性 |
| 1158 | of Singapore having no landward defences | 新加坡没有陆上防御工事 |
| 1159 | no more entered my mind than launching a | 我脑海里只有发射一个 |
| 1160 | battleship without a bottom. | 没有底部的战舰. |
| 1161 | Responsibility | 责任 |
| 1162 | does not get much clearer than that. | 没有比这更清楚。 |
| 1163 | And to the previous speaker, do not tell me | 对前一位发言者,不要告诉我 |
| 1164 | I wouldn't be here without Churchill. | 没有丘吉尔,我不会在这里。 |
| 1165 | I was from | 我是从 |
| 1166 | Singapore and my grandparents were abandoned | 新加坡和我的祖父母被抛弃了 |
| 1167 | by the Churchill administration. | 由丘吉尔政府负责 |
| 1168 | The most damning moment came when Singapore | 最令人发指的时刻到了,新加坡 |
| 1169 | was in the brink of collapse with British command | 在英国指挥下濒临崩溃 |
| 1170 | crying out for help. | 呼求救护. |
| 1171 | Churchill's ego | 丘吉尔的自负 |
| 1172 | showed no understanding of modern warfare | 对现代战争毫无了解 |
| 1173 | despite seeing the damage of Pearl Harbor | 尽管看到珍珠港受损 |
| 1174 | and literally having lived through the Blitz | 并活在闪电中 |
| 1175 | he dispatched the HMS | 他派出了HMS |
| 1176 | Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales with | 退职和威尔士亲王殿下 |
| 1177 | no air cover against the strength of the | 没有空中掩护 与强度 |
| 1178 | Japanese air power. | 日本航空动力. |
| 1179 | Whether this decision | 是否决定 |
| 1180 | sprang from blind faith in the Royal Navy | 从对皇家海军的盲目信仰中涌现出来 |
| 1181 | or the racial contempt Churchill had for | 或者丘吉尔对种族蔑视 |
| 1182 | Asians saying and I quote, I hate | 亚洲人说,我引用, 我讨厌 |
| 1183 | people with slit eyes and pigtails, the result | 眼睛和尾巴被割开的人,结果 |
| 1184 | was the same. | 一样 |
| 1185 | It was not heroism | 这不是英雄主义 |
| 1186 | it was disaster. | 这是灾难。 |
| 1187 | Both | 两者 |
| 1188 | vessels were predictably sunk by aircraft | 预计船只被飞机击沉 |
| 1189 | before they reached Singapore. | 在他们到达新加坡之前 |
| 1190 | Churchill's | 丘吉尔的 |
| 1191 | grand vision of battleships sailing into the | 伟大的愿景 战列舰驶入 |
| 1192 | harbor singing Britannia rules the waves | 海边唱着不列颠风波 |
| 1193 | turned into the sickening reality of 800 | 变成了令人厌恶的现实 800 |
| 1194 | Tommy boys ripped to shrapnel | 汤米男孩撕成碎片 |
| 1195 | and choking on oil in the black of the night | 在黑夜里,在油中窒息着, |
| 1196 | as they slipped beneath the waves | 在波涛下滑倒 |
| 1197 | even if proposition ignores every argument | 即使命题忽略了每一个论据 |
| 1198 | beyond the Second World War as this team | 在第二次世界大战之后 作为这个团队 |
| 1199 | wants you to do. | 想要你这样做。 |
| 1200 | It cannot escape | 它无法逃脱 |
| 1201 | this conclusion. | 这一结论。 |
| 1202 | Churchill's decision | 丘吉尔的决定 |
| 1203 | repeatedly consigned genuine heroes | 屡次派遣真正的英雄 |
| 1204 | to an unnecessary death. | 至不必要的死亡。 |
| 1205 | What is | 这是什么 |
| 1206 | praised as courage is in truth a single | 被赞颂为勇气 说实话,只有一个人 |
| 1207 | minded obsession with imperial conflict. | 沉迷于帝国主义冲突 |
| 1208 | This is not heroism, it is hard headed | 这不是英雄主义,这是很难的 |
| 1209 | warmongering. | 战争 |
| 1210 | I am now going to present | 我现在介绍 |
| 1211 | a second set of arguments to oppose the motion | 第二组反对动议的理由 |
| 1212 | just in case this team however | 不过以防这个团队 |
| 1213 | ironically wants to paint us as | 讽刺的是,想把我们描绘成 |
| 1214 | bitter immigrants from Singapore and India | 新加坡和印度的苦力移民 |
| 1215 | who came here to rail against British colonialism. | 他是来反抗英国殖民主义的 |
| 1216 | The impact of the Churchill administration | 丘吉尔政府的影响 |
| 1217 | was felt at home. | 被感觉在家里。 |
| 1218 | The first | 第一个 |
| 1219 | such instance was when Churchill as Home | 当丘吉尔成为家时 |
| 1220 | Secretary ordered troops into Tony Pandy | 秘书命令部队进入托尼潘迪 |
| 1221 | in 1910 to suppress the strikes | 在1910年镇压罢工 |
| 1222 | of Welsh miners. | 威尔士矿工。 |
| 1223 | These were not foreign | 这些不是外国的 |
| 1224 | enemies, they were British workers protesting | 敌人,他们是英国工人抗议 |
| 1225 | against dangerous conditions and starvation | 消除危险和饥饿 |
| 1226 | wages and instead of arriving as a | 工资,而不是作为 |
| 1227 | mediator Churchill dispatched troops | 丘吉尔调解人派遣部队 |
| 1228 | who could use deadly force and ultimately | 他们可以使用致命的武力,并最终 |
| 1229 | succeeded in their repression. | 成功镇压了他们。 |
| 1230 | As Home Secretary | 作为内政大臣 |
| 1231 | his conduct was not only immoral | 他的行为不仅不道德 |
| 1232 | it was disproportionate, forcing | 这是不相称的,强迫的 |
| 1233 | citizens whose only crime was collective | 唯一的罪行是集体的 |
| 1234 | bargaining to face down the barrel of | 讨价还价 面对的桶 |
| 1235 | bayonets. | 刺刀(原变种). |
| 1236 | The proposition may argue that this | 这个提议可能认为 |
| 1237 | was necessary to prevent violence or | 防止暴力或 |
| 1238 | Churchill didn't really want violence to happen | 丘吉尔并不想发生暴力 |
| 1239 | but this defence collapses when you observe | 但当你们观察时,防御系统会崩溃 |
| 1240 | the pattern. | 这个模式。 |
| 1241 | A year later he | 一年之后,他又来了 |
| 1242 | again deployed troops to Liverpool to put down | 重新部署部队到利物浦放下 |
| 1243 | the transport worker strikes, at this time | 运输工人罢工,此时此刻 |
| 1244 | with permanent consequences. | 会有永久的后果。 |
| 1245 | Too many in their twenties were murdered when | 20多岁的人被谋杀了 |
| 1246 | Churchill's troops opened fire into the crowd. | 丘吉尔的部队向人群开火. |
| 1247 | The blood on his hands did not | 他手上的血没有 |
| 1248 | deter his trigger finger because in | 阻止他的扳机手指,因为 |
| 1249 | 1919 he sent tanks and some 10,000 | 1919年他派了坦克和大约一万辆 |
| 1250 | troops to Glasgow to again put | 驻格拉斯哥部队再次部署 |
| 1251 | down the Union strikes on the basis that it was | 联邦罢工的理由是 |
| 1252 | supposedly a Bolshevik revolt. | 应该是布尔什维克的叛乱 |
| 1253 | It was like proposition says | 这就像命题说 |
| 1254 | that Churchill fought for freedom and democracy | 丘吉尔为自由和民主而战 |
| 1255 | but it's clear that the only thing he was interested | 但很明显他唯一感兴趣的是 |
| 1256 | in was the fight, not freedom and | 战斗,不是自由 |
| 1257 | not democracy. | 而不是民主主义。 |
| 1258 | Second, | 第二,我们... |
| 1259 | while much has been said, strangely | 虽然说了很多,奇怪的是 |
| 1260 | from both teams, about Churchill's racial | 从两队, 关于丘吉尔的种族 |
| 1261 | attitudes towards colonised people, it is | 对殖民者的态度,这是 |
| 1262 | necessary to confront his views on women | 有必要面对他对妇女的看法 |
| 1263 | because he was not a supporter of women's suffrage | 因为他不是女性选举权的支持者 |
| 1264 | writing that women were, and I quote, | 写到女人,我引用 |
| 1265 | well represented by their fathers, | 他们的父亲们, |
| 1266 | brothers and husbands. | 兄长和丈夫 |
| 1267 | And no, | 没有, |
| 1268 | this was not just him being a product of his | 这不仅仅是他的产物 |
| 1269 | time because other British political figures | 因为其他英国政治人物 |
| 1270 | at the time were far more progressive on the issue | 当时,这个问题的进展要大得多。 |
| 1271 | of women's suffrage. | 妇女选举权。 |
| 1272 | This also applies to | 这也适用于 |
| 1273 | other arguments as well. | 还有其他论点。 |
| 1274 | Churchill | 丘吉尔 |
| 1275 | at the time was not, his racism | 当时不是 他的种族主义 |
| 1276 | was not typical. | 这不是典型的。 |
| 1277 | It was extreme. | 这是极端的。 |
| 1278 | He was criticised in Parliament for commenting | 他被议会批评评论 |
| 1279 | on indigenous people being replaced by the | 关于土著人民被 |
| 1280 | higher grade race of the British. | 英国人高年级的比赛 |
| 1281 | If Churchill is considered a hero for | 如果丘吉尔被认为是英雄 |
| 1282 | protecting democracy, you need to ask | 保护民主,你需要问 |
| 1283 | democracy for who? | 民主为谁服务? |
| 1284 | Because it certainly | 因为当然 |
| 1285 | wasn't everyone in Churchill's world. | 不是丘吉尔的世界里的每一个人 |
| 1286 | Finally, and most egregiously, | 最后,最令人发指的是, |
| 1287 | we must confront his | 我们必须面对他 |
| 1288 | role in sending the black and tans to Ireland | 黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑 |
| 1289 | during the War of Independence. | 在独立战争期间。 |
| 1290 | These groups | 这些团体 |
| 1291 | had a reputation of excessive violence and | 拥有过度暴力的声誉 |
| 1292 | Churchill knew it. | 丘吉尔知道 |
| 1293 | He deliberately | 他故意这样 |
| 1294 | chose to ignore the cries for help from | 选择忽略请求帮助的呼声 |
| 1295 | terrorised civilian populations, refused | 恐吓平民,拒绝 |
| 1296 | calls to stand down the black and tans and even | 黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑黑 |
| 1297 | wanted to dispatch air power to Ireland. | 想要向爱尔兰发送空中电力 |
| 1298 | The consequences on this of the | 由此而来的后果 |
| 1299 | civilian population are too numerous and | 平民人口太多,而且 |
| 1300 | too graphic for me to name. | 画的太像了 |
| 1301 | The black | 那个黑人 |
| 1302 | and tans conducted reprisal, arbitrary | 棕褐色进行报复,任意 |
| 1303 | killing of non-combatants. | 杀害非战斗人员。 |
| 1304 | They burned homes. | 他们烧毁了房屋。 |
| 1305 | They sieged villages to cut off their food | 他们包围村庄,切断食物 |
| 1306 | supply. | 供应。 |
| 1307 | They accused the murdering | 他们指控谋杀 |
| 1308 | dozens of people, including a priest whose | 数十人,包括一位牧师 |
| 1309 | body was found dumped in a bog days | 尸体被发现在沼泽的日子里被丢弃 |
| 1310 | later. | 等会 |
| 1311 | The violence became so extreme | 暴力变得如此极端 |
| 1312 | that it wasn't just opposition from Parliament, | 不仅仅是议会的反对, |
| 1313 | it was opposition from the King as well. | 也是国王的反对 |
| 1314 | Churchill likes to speak of the darkest | 丘吉尔喜欢说最黑暗的 |
| 1315 | hour, but the darkest hour for the | 一小时,但最黑暗的时刻 |
| 1316 | civilians of Ireland was not a speech. | 爱尔兰平民并不是一个演讲。 |
| 1317 | It was the reality of the years they spent | 那是他们度过的岁月的现实 |
| 1318 | living under the terror of the troops that Churchill | 生活在丘吉尔部队的恐怖之下 |
| 1319 | sent to repress them. | 派去镇压他们 |
| 1320 | He made | 他创造了 |
| 1321 | it a wasteland and he called it peace. | 这是一片荒地 他称之为和平 |
| 1322 | These are not isolated mistakes. | 这不是孤立的错误。 |
| 1323 | They form a pattern. | 它们形成了一种模式。 |
| 1324 | Whenever he was confronted with demands | 每当他遇到要求时 |
| 1325 | for dignity from workers, from women, | 从工人、妇女、 |
| 1326 | from colonised people, Churchill responded | 来自殖民者的丘吉尔回应 |
| 1327 | with force. | 以强力. |
| 1328 | It was the obsession with violence | 这是对暴力的痴迷 |
| 1329 | that led Churchill to send hundreds of | 导致丘吉尔送来了数百人 |
| 1330 | thousands of allied troops to their futile | 成千上万的盟军 徒劳无功 |
| 1331 | slaughter at Gallipoli and ultimately led | 在加利波利的屠杀 并最终领导 |
| 1332 | to him being voted out in the 1945 | 1945年被淘汰给他 |
| 1333 | election when he wanted to continue confrontation. | 当他想要继续对抗时 |
| 1334 | If the people who lived through the | 如果那些活在 |
| 1335 | war wanted to throw him out immediately after, | 战争之后就想把他赶出去 |
| 1336 | clearly they didn't believe that he was | 显然他们不相信他是 |
| 1337 | a hero at all. | 是个英雄 |
| 1338 | The final | 决赛 |
| 1339 | question I want to address is how everything | 我想谈的一个问题是,一切如何 |
| 1340 | we have said bears on the idea of heroism | 我们说过 英雄主义的想法 |
| 1341 | itself. | 它本身。 |
| 1342 | Let me be clear. | 让我说清楚 |
| 1343 | We are not saying that Churchill was a villain. | 我们不是说丘吉尔是个坏人 |
| 1344 | We are not saying he didn't do good. | 我们不是说他没有做好事 |
| 1345 | We are not saying | 我们不是说 |
| 1346 | he didn't rise to the occasion in a time of | 他没有在那个时候站起来 |
| 1347 | crisis. | 危机。 |
| 1348 | But heroism, as Tanuj rightly | 但英雄主义,正如塔努杰正确 |
| 1349 | frames, carries a very demanding | 框,带一个非常苛刻的 |
| 1350 | moral burden. | 道德负担。 |
| 1351 | So if you walk out | 所以如果你走出来 |
| 1352 | of here thinking that Churchill was a complicated man, | 认为丘吉尔是个复杂的人 |
| 1353 | that his legacy was complex, that he was | 他的遗产是复杂的,他是 |
| 1354 | flawed, that even he might have been a hero to some | 错误的,即使他 可能已经是一个英雄 一些 |
| 1355 | groups of people, that is not a sufficient | 这还不够 |
| 1356 | condition for you to vote for the proposition | 投票支持提案的条件 |
| 1357 | because complexity is not heroism. | 因为复杂不是英雄主义 |
| 1358 | Admiration from some does | 有些人的赞美 |
| 1359 | not entitle anyone to the exemption | 不赋予任何人豁免的权利 |
| 1360 | of moral examination. | 道德检查。 |
| 1361 | We simply | 我们只是 |
| 1362 | cannot excuse grave wrongdoing | 不能为严重错误辩护 |
| 1363 | on the basis of good, especially when | 在良好的基础上,特别是当 |
| 1364 | the same authority he did, he used to do that | 和他一样,他曾经这么做 |
| 1365 | good, was used to do the | 好,是用来做 |
| 1366 | wrongdoing. | 错失行为 |
| 1367 | I think that we think that some | 我认为,我们认为一些 |
| 1368 | things are not redeemable. | 事情是无法挽回的。 |
| 1369 | If Keir Starmer | 如果凯尔·斯塔默 |
| 1370 | won the war in Ukraine, but millions | 赢得了乌克兰的战争,但数百万 |
| 1371 | of people in the UK back home starved, I don't | 英国人饿死,我不饿 |
| 1372 | think any of you will consider him a hero. | 你们谁都认为他是英雄 |
| 1373 | By Zia's metric, Hitler could be considered | 根据齐亚的衡量标准,可以考虑希特勒 |
| 1374 | a hero because he was very courageous in fighting for | 一个英雄 因为他非常勇敢地为 |
| 1375 | what he believed in. | 他所信仰的东西 |
| 1376 | Clearly, this is not | 显然,这不是 |
| 1377 | sufficient for someone to be a hero. | 足以成为英雄 |
| 1378 | If that isn't enough to convince you, there | 如果这还不足以说服你,就在那里 |
| 1379 | are strong second order reasons for you to vote for | 这是你投票支持的第二大理由 |
| 1380 | the opposition. | 反对派。 |
| 1381 | What should we | 怎么办? |
| 1382 | demand of our heroes? | 我们的英雄的要求? |
| 1383 | What should we | 怎么办? |
| 1384 | teach our children what values to admire | 教我们的孩子欣赏什么价值 |
| 1385 | and emulate? | 你应当效法我, |
| 1386 | Should our predominant | 如果我们的主要 |
| 1387 | image of the genuine British heroism | 真正的英国英雄形象 |
| 1388 | in World War II be this deeply | 在二战中... ... |
| 1389 | flawed and complicated man, or the | 有缺陷和复杂的人,或者 |
| 1390 | actual heroes like Douglas Bader, | 像道格拉斯·巴德这样的英雄 |
| 1391 | Ailin Nan, Lakshman Gurung, and the millions of imperial | 爱林南,拉克什曼古龙 和百万帝国主义者 |
| 1392 | conscripts who laid down their lives | 牺牲生命的应征者 |
| 1393 | to protect this continent? | 保护这个大陆? |
| 1394 | This | 这个 |
| 1395 | motion does not just call on us to make | 动议不只是要求我们做 |
| 1396 | a descriptive judgement, but a prescriptive | 说明性判断,但规定 |
| 1397 | one on what we want from our heroes, | 我们想从英雄那里得到什么 |
| 1398 | who we should worship, whose statue | 我们应该崇拜谁,谁的雕像 |
| 1399 | should be in Parliament. | 应该是在议会。 |
| 1400 | And we argue | 我们争吵 |
| 1401 | that a hero is not someone who wins | 英雄不是赢家 |
| 1402 | history. | 历史 |
| 1403 | A hero is someone who refuses | 英雄就是拒绝的人 |
| 1404 | to lose his humanity while doing it. | 在做的时候失去他的人性 |
| 1405 | To the arguments that Tanush has presented, | 对于塔努什提出的论据, |
| 1406 | we got feeble excuses and deafening | 我们得到了软弱的借口 耳聋 |
| 1407 | silence. | 安静 |
| 1408 | We agree this debate | 我们同意这次辩论 |
| 1409 | is not all academic. | 不是所有的学术。 |
| 1410 | Anyone voting proposition has to walk | 任何投票提案都要步行 |
| 1411 | out of here and carry with them the weight | 离开这儿,带着重物 |
| 1412 | of the innocents repressed in Wales and | 在威尔士被镇压的无辜者 |
| 1413 | Ireland, the soldiers sent to their deaths | 爱尔兰,士兵送他们去死 |
| 1414 | in Gallipoli and Singapore, the children | 在加里波利和新加坡,孩子们 |
| 1415 | that were starved in Bengal. | 那些在孟加拉挨饿的人 |
| 1416 | And we know that the lightest body bags | 我们知道最轻的袋子 |
| 1417 | are always the hardest to carry. | 总是最难携带。 |
| 1418 | I end with an adaptation of words | 我最后要改个词 |
| 1419 | from poets far more gifted than I am. | 来自诗人的天赋比我还高 |
| 1420 | Like Ozymandias, Churchill | 像奥兹曼迪亚斯,丘吉尔 |
| 1421 | demanded admiration. | 需要钦佩 |
| 1422 | Like Ordon's rulers, | 像奥登的统治者一样 |
| 1423 | his power reduced lives to abstractions. | 他的力量使生命沦为抽象 |
| 1424 | Like Byron's anti-hero, | 像拜伦的反英雄, |
| 1425 | he mistook force for virtue. | 他把武力误认为是美德。 |
| 1426 | None | 无 |
| 1427 | of this is heroism. | 这是英雄主义 |
| 1428 | Muthachar, | 穆沙查尔, |
| 1429 | I hope you're proud of me. | 我希望你为我骄傲 |
| 1430 | I'm so proud to oppose. | 我非常自豪地反对。 |
| 1431 | Before we move on to the final two speeches, | 在我们开始最后两场演讲之前 |
| 1432 | I would like to invite some | 我想邀请一些 |
| 1433 | members from the audience to deliver | 来自听众的成员 |
| 1434 | floor speeches. | 地板演讲。 |
| 1435 | Is there anyone | 有没有人 |
| 1436 | for a proposition? | 为了一个提议? |
| 1437 | The member at the front. | 成员在前面。 |
| 1438 | I feel as though this may be the only | 我觉得这也许是唯一的 |
| 1439 | country, except perhaps Germany, which | 国家,也许德国除外 |
| 1440 | views self-hatred and self-criticism | 自我仇恨和自我批评 |
| 1441 | as sort of a virtue. | 作为一种美德。 |
| 1442 | It seems | 看起来 |
| 1443 | really bizarre to me, this attitude | 这态度对我来说很奇怪 |
| 1444 | of whenever a Brit rises | 当英国人崛起时 |
| 1445 | to greatness, whenever a Brit achieves | 当一个英国人达到 |
| 1446 | something that really exceeds and | 真正超过, |
| 1447 | demonstrates our values, | 证明我们的价值观, |
| 1448 | we feel the need to perpetually criticise and poke holes | 我们觉得需要永远批评和戳孔 |
| 1449 | and find issues. | 找到问题 |
| 1450 | Yes, Churchill was not | 是的,丘吉尔不是 |
| 1451 | a perfect person, but it was said by | 一个完美的人, 但它是说, |
| 1452 | the previous speaker that | 上一位发言者指出, |
| 1453 | complexity does not make heroism. | 复杂性不会造成英雄主义。 |
| 1454 | I think that's an absurd thing to say. | 我觉得这话太荒谬了 |
| 1455 | Some of the greatest heroes in history were | 历史上最伟大的英雄 |
| 1456 | complex, flawed people who ended up doing | 复杂,有缺陷的人 最终做 |
| 1457 | amazing, great things. | 惊人的,伟大的东西。 |
| 1458 | Now, what | 现在,什么 |
| 1459 | are we as a country? | 我们是国家吗? |
| 1460 | Are we a | 我们是一个 |
| 1461 | bunch of economic units? | 一堆经济单位? |
| 1462 | Are we just | 我们只是 |
| 1463 | a wet rock in the water? | 水里一块湿石头? |
| 1464 | Or are we | 还是我们 |
| 1465 | a people with values, beliefs | 有价值观和信仰的民族 |
| 1466 | and convictions? | 和定罪? |
| 1467 | And if we are the latter, | 如果我们是后者, |
| 1468 | I believe that Churchill was one of the | 我相信丘吉尔是 |
| 1469 | best and greatest examples of someone who | 最佳和最伟大的例子 |
| 1470 | demonstrates those convictions and those | 证明这些定罪和 |
| 1471 | values. | 数值。 |
| 1472 | So despite his flaws, despite | 所以尽管他的缺点,尽管 |
| 1473 | the mistakes that were made at the time | 当时所犯的错误 |
| 1474 | based on the information that was available, despite | 根据现有资料,尽管 |
| 1475 | the fact that when you are a leader, you | 当你成为领袖时 |
| 1476 | have immense responsibility and the highs | 责任重大,责任重大 |
| 1477 | are immensely high and the lows are immensely | 高得惊人,低得惊人 |
| 1478 | low and when you're in war, you cannot be | 低,当你在战争中,你不能 |
| 1479 | perfect. | 完美无缺 |
| 1480 | Despite that, I think that he | 虽然如此,我觉得他 |
| 1481 | represents our values, our beliefs | 代表我们的价值观和信仰 |
| 1482 | and who we are as Britain, better | 和谁是英国,更好 |
| 1483 | than almost anyone in history and for that reason | 比历史上几乎任何人 也因为这个原因 |
| 1484 | I believe that Winston Churchill is a hero. | 我相信温斯顿·丘吉尔是个英雄 |
| 1485 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 1486 | I would like to call one | 我想打电话给一个 |
| 1487 | speaker for side opposition. | 副反对者发言。 |
| 1488 | Yes. | 对 |
| 1489 | Madam President, | 主席女士, |
| 1490 | Winston Churchill was not a good man. | 温斯顿·丘吉尔不是一个好人。 |
| 1491 | He was not a hero. | 他不是一个英雄。 |
| 1492 | He | |
| 1493 | was a racist. | 是个种族主义者。 |
| 1494 | He was an imperialist | 他是个帝国主义者 |
| 1495 | and he was a mass murderer. | 他是个杀人狂 |
| 1496 | Now, I'm not going to make that case | 现在,我不会说出这个理由 |
| 1497 | for you all because there are three excellent people | 因为你们有三个优秀的人 |
| 1498 | who have already made it or who will make it | 谁已经做了,谁会做它 |
| 1499 | for you. | 给你的 |
| 1500 | But listening | 但是听着 |
| 1501 | to this debate reminds | 对本次辩论的提醒 |
| 1502 | me of a book, | 我的书, |
| 1503 | of a poem | 一首诗 |
| 1504 | that I really love, Paradise | 我真的很喜欢,天堂 |
| 1505 | Lost by John Milton, which many of you | 被约翰·米尔顿迷路了,你们很多人 |
| 1506 | will have read. | 将会阅读。 |
| 1507 | And I think particularly to book | 我特别想订书 |
| 1508 | 11 of Paradise Lost, | "失乐园11" |
| 1509 | when after Eve has eaten | 当夏娃吃饭之后, |
| 1510 | the forbidden fruit, | 禁果, |
| 1511 | the archangel Michael comes down | 大天使迈克尔下来了 |
| 1512 | and he gives Adam and Eve a chastising | 他使阿丹和夏娃受刑罚, |
| 1513 | and he gives them a vision | 他以一个视觉昭示他们, |
| 1514 | of the future and he talks about the events | 未来,他谈论事件 |
| 1515 | that will occur on this planet. | 这将会发生在这个星球上 |
| 1516 | And there's a particular segment where he talks | 还有一段他说话的地方 |
| 1517 | about the great men of history, | 关于历史的伟人, |
| 1518 | of Alexander, | 亚历山大 |
| 1519 | of Caesar, and of their | 凯撒和他们的 |
| 1520 | judgment in the sight of God. | 审判在上帝的眼前。 |
| 1521 | And it's that passage that I'd like to read | 我想读的那段 |
| 1522 | out to you. | 出来给你。 |
| 1523 | Before glory done | 在荣耀完成之前 |
| 1524 | of triumph to be styled great conquerors, | 以伟大的征服者发誓, |
| 1525 | patrons of mankind, | 人类的保佑者, |
| 1526 | gods and | 众神和 |
| 1527 | sons of gods, | 众神的儿子, |
| 1528 | destroyers rightly are called, | 驱逐舰被正确称为, |
| 1529 | and plagues of men. | 和人类的灾祸。 |
| 1530 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 1531 | Next I would like to call on Ms. Cunningham to deliver | 接下来我请坎宁安女士发言 |
| 1532 | her speech for side proposition. | 她的副提议演讲 |
| 1533 | Madam President, ladies and | 总统女士,女士们 |
| 1534 | gentlemen, if this debate is | 先生们 如果这次辩论 |
| 1535 | one on how many words are spoken per minute, | 一分钟说几句话, |
| 1536 | then I concede defeat to the opposition. | 然后我向反对派承认失败 |
| 1537 | Despite going to Oxford, | 尽管去牛津, |
| 1538 | he doesn't seem to understand | 他好像没明白 |
| 1539 | the amplifying capabilities | 扩大能力 |
| 1540 | of a microphone. | 麦克风。 |
| 1541 | I didn't go to | 我没有去 |
| 1542 | Oxford. | 牛津大学. |
| 1543 | I didn't quite make it. | 我没来得及 |
| 1544 | I didn't read books and as the Oppen said, | 我没有看书,正如奥本所说, |
| 1545 | I spent time doing slam dunks. | 我花了很长时间来打篮球 |
| 1546 | So I don't come with | 所以我不跟你们走 |
| 1547 | facts, I don't come with dates, | 事实,我不带日期, |
| 1548 | and I don't come with poetry. | 我不带诗来 |
| 1549 | As a politician I come with rhetoric. | 作为一个政治家,我带着修辞而来。 |
| 1550 | And I'll tell you this, some men | 告诉你,一些男人 |
| 1551 | write history, right? | 写历史,对不对? |
| 1552 | Some men survive history, | 有些男人在历史中幸存下来 |
| 1553 | some lucky men get to read | 有些幸运的人会读书 |
| 1554 | history. | 历史 |
| 1555 | Churchill | 丘吉尔 |
| 1556 | bent history to his will, and that's | 将历史归结于他的意志,这就是 |
| 1557 | why we're free here to nitpick him | 为什么我们在这里自由选择他 |
| 1558 | tonight. | 今晚见 |
| 1559 | He was no | 他没有 |
| 1560 | armchair, no thanks, not right now, he was | 手椅,不,谢谢,现在不是,他是 |
| 1561 | no armchair patriot like | 没有爱国者喜欢的 |
| 1562 | some here. | 这里有些 |
| 1563 | He didn't wage | 他没有付钱 |
| 1564 | wars from behind a lectern or a | 战争背后的演讲或 |
| 1565 | microphone, he rode in them. | 麦克风,他骑着它们。 |
| 1566 | While most of today's critics | 虽然今天的批评者大多 |
| 1567 | write essays and debates | 撰写论文和辩论 |
| 1568 | about the empire, | 关于帝国, |
| 1569 | he was dodging bullets to save it. | 他躲过子弹来救它 |
| 1570 | He faced live | 他面对直播 |
| 1571 | ammunition while you faced live | 弹药,当你面对现场 |
| 1572 | audiences. | 观众。 |
| 1573 | One takes | 一个 |
| 1574 | courage, the other takes | 勇气,另一个需要 |
| 1575 | good grades. | 成绩不错。 |
| 1576 | Now the dons | 现在的唐人 |
| 1577 | and the students can afford to | 学生可以负担 |
| 1578 | moralise because men like | 道德,因为男人喜欢 |
| 1579 | Churchill bought their safety | 丘吉尔买了他们的保险 |
| 1580 | with blood. | 与血迹。 |
| 1581 | They can rewrite | 他们可以重写 |
| 1582 | history because he made sure that there | 历史因为他确保在那里 |
| 1583 | was a history to write. | 是一个历史写作。 |
| 1584 | You study courage, | 你学习勇气 |
| 1585 | he lived it. | 他活了下来。 |
| 1586 | They have the comfort of hindsight, | 他们有后视力, |
| 1587 | he had the discomfort | 他有点不适 |
| 1588 | of incoming fire. | 即将着火 |
| 1589 | Now it's easy to be flawless | 现在很容易无瑕疵 |
| 1590 | and judgemental. | 和判断。 |
| 1591 | When the | 当 |
| 1592 | gravest danger you face | 你面临的最大危险 |
| 1593 | is a D, not | 是一个D,不是 |
| 1594 | the Luftwaffe. | 法兰西空军 |
| 1595 | That's the gulf | 那是海湾 |
| 1596 | we're debating tonight between those who | 我们今晚在那些 |
| 1597 | act and those who analyse. | 行动与分析者。 |
| 1598 | He earned his convictions | 他赢得了他的信念 |
| 1599 | the hard way, | 艰难的路, |
| 1600 | you earn them in a book. | 你在书里挣钱 |
| 1601 | When the establishment kicked him down, | 当公司把他踢下来时 |
| 1602 | when he didn't retreat to write a thesis, | 当他没有退去写论文时 |
| 1603 | he went back to the front line | 他回到前线 |
| 1604 | to prove he wasn't a coward. | 为了证明他不是懦夫 |
| 1605 | Go on. | 继续 |
| 1606 | Yeah, he did | 是的,他这样做 |
| 1607 | when he was young, actually. | 其实他年轻的时候 |
| 1608 | I don't come with dates, I come with | 我不带约会,我带 |
| 1609 | rhetoric, love. | 说辞,爱。 |
| 1610 | Read a book. | 读一书. |
| 1611 | Now it's easy | 现在很简单 |
| 1612 | to be flawless. | 成为无瑕疵。 |
| 1613 | Oh, sorry, I think | 对不起,我想 |
| 1614 | I've gone to that. | 我已经去。 |
| 1615 | It's easy to be spotless when you've | 做无斑点的人很容易 |
| 1616 | never had to decide | 从来没有决定 |
| 1617 | who lives and dies before | 活着和死去的人 |
| 1618 | dawn. | 黎明时分。 |
| 1619 | You see, across Europe | 你看,整个欧洲 |
| 1620 | now, sadly, we are watching a new generation | 现在,可悲的是,我们正在看着新一代 |
| 1621 | of Chamberlains. | 张伯伦 |
| 1622 | Not waving umbrellas, it's very | 不挥舞伞,这是非常 |
| 1623 | awkward, but | 尴尬,但是 |
| 1624 | signing away sovereignty in the name | 以名义签署放弃主权 |
| 1625 | of global partnerships. | 全球伙伴关系。 |
| 1626 | Partnerships that serve everyone | 为所有人服务的伙伴关系 |
| 1627 | except the nations that sign them. | 惟签署它们的各民族除外。 |
| 1628 | They close factories for applause | 他们关闭工厂来掌声 |
| 1629 | abroad and call it virtue at home. | 在国外,并称之为美德在国内。 |
| 1630 | They weaken themselves | 他们削弱自己 |
| 1631 | and dress it up as progress. | 把它打扮成进步 |
| 1632 | They sign away their strength to global | 他们向全球签署他们的力量 |
| 1633 | deals that enrich their rivals | 交易,丰富他们的对手 |
| 1634 | but never their people. | 但绝不是他们的人民。 |
| 1635 | They shut down their own industries to win applause | 他们关闭自己的产业 赢得掌声 |
| 1636 | on the international stage and call it progress | 并称之为进步 |
| 1637 | while their citizens | 他们的公民 |
| 1638 | pay the price. | 付出代价。 |
| 1639 | We're watching | 我们在看 |
| 1640 | governments surrender their sovereignty | 政府放弃主权 |
| 1641 | piece by piece, dressing | 逐块涂装 |
| 1642 | it up as partnership. | 它作为伙伴关系。 |
| 1643 | They chase approval abroad | 他们向国外申请批准 |
| 1644 | while hollowing out nations they | 将国家空虚, |
| 1645 | swore to defend. | 发誓要捍卫 |
| 1646 | That's | 这是 |
| 1647 | not national security. | 不是国家安全 |
| 1648 | That's betrayal dressed as | 这是背叛 伪装成 |
| 1649 | diplomacy, and Churchill would have | 外交,丘吉尔会 |
| 1650 | called it what it is. | 把它称为它是什么。 |
| 1651 | Appeasement. | 抚恤. |
| 1652 | He warned against | 他警告过不要 |
| 1653 | appeasement once. | 安抚一次. |
| 1654 | Sadly, we're | 很遗憾,我们 |
| 1655 | watching it again. | 再说一遍 |
| 1656 | A continent that bends rather than stands. | 一个弯曲而不是站立的大陆. |
| 1657 | Leaders who treat sovereignty | 对待主权的领导人 |
| 1658 | like an inconvenience to be outsourced. | 像一个不便 外包。 |
| 1659 | Go on. | 继续 |
| 1660 | Okay, you're done now. | 好了,你结束了。 |
| 1661 | It's not a lecture. | 岂非讲学. |
| 1662 | Point taken. | 说得好 |
| 1663 | Some would argue | 有些人会争吵 |
| 1664 | bravery makes a hero, and a hero | 勇敢成为英雄,成为英雄 |
| 1665 | is brave. | 勇敢无畏 |
| 1666 | Point of order. | 问法句. |
| 1667 | I can't take | 我无法承受 |
| 1668 | all the point of order. | 所有的问题。 |
| 1669 | Now, where was I? | 我说到哪儿了? |
| 1670 | He warned against | 他警告过不要 |
| 1671 | appeasement once, and we're watching it again. | 一次安抚,我们又在看 |
| 1672 | The continent that bends rather than stands. | 弯曲而不是站立的大陆. |
| 1673 | He understood | 他懂的,我说 |
| 1674 | something, sadly, that our politicians | 可悲的是 我们的政治家们 |
| 1675 | have forgotten today. | 已经忘记今天。 |
| 1676 | A nation must always be able | 一个国家必须永远有能力 |
| 1677 | to stand alone. | 独处。 |
| 1678 | Because only a nation that will defend its own | 因为只有保卫自己的国家 |
| 1679 | self-interest to the last breath. | 自我利益到最后一口气。 |
| 1680 | Allies have their place, | 盟军有他们的位置, |
| 1681 | but every ally has its own interest, | 但每个盟友都有自己的利益, |
| 1682 | its own voters, its own flag. | 自己的选民,自己的旗帜。 |
| 1683 | You can work with friends, as I'm sure you | 你可以和朋友一起工作,我相信你们 |
| 1684 | all do. | 都一样。 |
| 1685 | But you cannot rely on them to | 但你不能依赖他们 |
| 1686 | die for your priorities. | 死为你的优先。 |
| 1687 | That's why | 这就是为什么 |
| 1688 | leaders must never outsource their courage or | 领导者永远不能放弃他们的勇气 |
| 1689 | their sovereignty. | 他们的主权。 |
| 1690 | And the price of | 和代价 |
| 1691 | forgetting that, that our leaders have | 忘记这一点,我们的领导人 |
| 1692 | today, Churchill would | 今天,丘吉尔会 |
| 1693 | have called it appeasement. | 称之为安抚。 |
| 1694 | A nation... | 一个国家... |
| 1695 | Yeah, go on. | 是啊,继续。 |
| 1696 | Who wanted a point | 谁想要一点 |
| 1697 | of order? | 秩序吗? |
| 1698 | Sorry, do you have a question? | 对不起,你有问题吗? |
| 1699 | Yeah? | 是吗? |
| 1700 | I'm not denying that. | 我不会否认的 |
| 1701 | What's your point? | 你想说什么? |
| 1702 | See, Churchill | 看,丘吉尔 |
| 1703 | didn't lead by focus group. | 没有通过焦点小组领导。 |
| 1704 | Churchill didn't lead by focus groups. | 丘吉尔并没有由焦点小组领导. |
| 1705 | He led with conviction. | 他带着信念领导。 |
| 1706 | He recognized | 他认得 |
| 1707 | the first and the most | 第一个和最 |
| 1708 | sacred duty of any | 任何人的神圣义务 |
| 1709 | government is to keep its people safe. | 政府要保证人民的安全 |
| 1710 | And unlike our leaders today, | 不像我们今天的领导人 |
| 1711 | he honored it. | 他很荣幸 |
| 1712 | He spoke victory into existence | 他把胜利说成存在 |
| 1713 | when every map screamed defeat. | 当每张地图都尖叫着失败的时候 |
| 1714 | He told a bombed out Britain, | 他告诉一个被轰炸的英国, |
| 1715 | we are masters of our fate. | 我们是命运的主宰 |
| 1716 | And the nation believed him. | 国家相信他 |
| 1717 | Let's be honest, he | 老实说,他 |
| 1718 | wasn't perfect. | 不尽如人意 |
| 1719 | Perfection | 完善 |
| 1720 | is for angels, victory is for adults. | 是天使的胜利是成年人的胜利 |
| 1721 | A hero isn't a saint. | 英雄非圣贤. |
| 1722 | He's the one that does whatever | 他是一个谁做什么 |
| 1723 | it takes when civilization is on | 当文明开始的时候 |
| 1724 | the line. | 线条。 |
| 1725 | He chose duty | 他选择了义务 |
| 1726 | over popularity | 超受欢迎 |
| 1727 | and he made defense itself | 他为自己辩护, |
| 1728 | a victory. | 一个胜利。 |
| 1729 | He saw what | 他看见了什么 |
| 1730 | clever men, much like today, | 聪明人,就像今天一样 |
| 1731 | in fancy suits, didn't | 穿着漂亮的西装,没有 |
| 1732 | that evil was gathering strength. | 邪恶正在凝聚力量 |
| 1733 | And Europe's polite diplomacy | 欧洲的礼节外交 |
| 1734 | was feeding it. | 是喂养它。 |
| 1735 | He understood that surrender doesn't stop | 他知道投降不会停止 |
| 1736 | tyranny. | 暴政。 暴政。 |
| 1737 | It feeds it. | 其供养. |
| 1738 | His words, we shall fight on the beaches. | 他的话,我们要在海滩上战斗 |
| 1739 | They weren't the poetry you recite. | 他们不是你所诵的诗 |
| 1740 | They were policy. | 他们是政策。 |
| 1741 | And they saved lives. | 他们拯救了生命。 |
| 1742 | They convinced a | 他们说服 |
| 1743 | frightened nation that defiance itself | 恐惧的国家 藐视自己 |
| 1744 | is victory. | 这是胜利。 |
| 1745 | Yes, he was human. | 是的,他是人类。 |
| 1746 | I'm so happy to see | 我很高兴看到 |
| 1747 | so many reform fans here. | 这么多的改革粉丝在这里。 |
| 1748 | I must tell you, sir, you need to stop | 我必须告诉你,先生,你必须停止 |
| 1749 | watching social media and actually read the news. | 观看社交媒体,实际上阅读新闻。 |
| 1750 | Because neither of that | 因为没有 |
| 1751 | were said. | 有人说。 |
| 1752 | Now, heroism, my friends, ladies and gentlemen, | 现在,英雄主义,我的朋友,女士们,先生们, |
| 1753 | is measured in lives protected, liberties preserved, | 以保护生命、保护自由来衡量 |
| 1754 | and tyrannies extinguished, | 暴虐者被扑灭, |
| 1755 | not in meetings or perfect prose. | 不是在会议 或完美的传言。 |
| 1756 | A tragedy, no hero is spotless, | 悲剧,没有英雄是无色的, |
| 1757 | but if perfection is the entry fee for heroism, | 但是如果完美是英雄主义的入场费 |
| 1758 | empty every statue plinth from Rome to Washington. | 从罗马到华盛顿的每个雕像都空了 |
| 1759 | He believed not just in Britain, | 他不仅仅相信英国 |
| 1760 | unlike our leaders today, but in a Great Britain, | 不像今天我们的领导人 但在英国 |
| 1761 | a Britain that leads, builds, and refuses to bow. | a 英国领导、建设和拒绝鞠躬。 |
| 1762 | When appeases trembled, he stood firm. | 当安抚不安时,他站稳了 |
| 1763 | When defeat seemed inevitable, | 当失败似乎不可避免的时候, |
| 1764 | he made defiance itself a victory, | 他以为自己是胜利的, |
| 1765 | and when the smoke cleared, he did not leave perfection, | 当烟雾消散的时候,他没有离开完美, |
| 1766 | but he left freedom. | 但他离开了自由。 |
| 1767 | He believed in a united Europe led by Britain. | 他相信一个由英国领导的统一欧洲. |
| 1768 | He believed in sovereignty, in pride, | 他相信主权,自豪, |
| 1769 | and in civilization worth defending. | 在值得捍卫的文明中 |
| 1770 | You think history is something that you edit. | 你认为历史是你编辑的。 |
| 1771 | He knew history is something you make. | 他知道历史是你创造的 |
| 1772 | Leaders today talk about shared values, | 今天的领导人谈论共同的价值观, |
| 1773 | but he believed in actual values worth fighting for. | 但他相信值得为它奋斗的实际价值 |
| 1774 | He didn't care about the optics. | 他不在乎光学 |
| 1775 | He cared about the outcome. | 他关心结果。 |
| 1776 | He didn't seek permission from the establishment. | 他没有向机构寻求许可. |
| 1777 | He told it to go away and where to stand. | 他叫它走开,站在哪 |
| 1778 | He didn't care about being liked, unlike most of you. | 他不关心被喜欢, 不像你们大多数人。 |
| 1779 | Unlike most of you, he cared about being right. | 与你们大多数人不同,他关心的是正确。 |
| 1780 | The historians on my left and the students | 我左边的历史学家和学生 |
| 1781 | have the luxury, the historians on my left | 有奢侈,历史学家在我左边 |
| 1782 | have the luxury of judging the past with today's morals | 以今天的道德判断过去 |
| 1783 | because Churchill gave them that luxury. | 因为丘吉尔给了他们那种奢侈 |
| 1784 | They gave them a tomorrow to do it in. | 他们给了他们一个明天做它。 |
| 1785 | Professors on my left may annotate a tragedy. | 我左边的教授们可能会说出悲剧 |
| 1786 | Statement, statesmen have to avert it. | 声明,政治家必须避免. |
| 1787 | He spoke, he told a nation of ordinary people | 他说话,告诉一个普通人的国家 |
| 1788 | that they were the masters of their fate, | 他们原是自己命运的主宰, |
| 1789 | and because of his conviction, they believed him. | 由于他的信念,他们相信他。 |
| 1790 | So why does this matter tonight? | 那今晚这有什么关系? |
| 1791 | Because this debate isn't really about Churchill. | 因为这场辩论不是关于丘吉尔的 |
| 1792 | It's about whether Britain and everyone in this room | 这是关于英国和所有在这个房间里的人 |
| 1793 | still remembers what heroism looks like. | 还是记得英雄主义是什么样子的 |
| 1794 | You live in peace because he had the guts to fight for it. | 你活得很平静,因为他有勇气去争取 |
| 1795 | And this house of all places, | 和这里所有的地方, |
| 1796 | a house that can't define what a man or a woman is, | 房子不能定义 男人或女人是什么, |
| 1797 | how could it ever hope to recognize courage? | 怎么会有勇气呢? |
| 1798 | That kind of confusion, ladies and gentlemen, | 那种混乱,女士们先生们, |
| 1799 | on the front line would have lost us the war in a week. | 在前线一周内就会输掉战争 |
| 1800 | He had flaws, but he had the single quality | 他有缺陷,但他有单一的品质 |
| 1801 | that no modern leader seems to possess, | 现代领袖似乎没有拥有, |
| 1802 | the refusal to lose. | 拒绝输。 |
| 1803 | He was no saint. | 他不是个圣人 |
| 1804 | He wasn't a slogan. | 他不是一个口号。 |
| 1805 | He was just a man who stood up | 他只是个站起来的人 |
| 1806 | when standing up looked impossible. | 站着看似不可能 |
| 1807 | And by doing so, ladies and gentlemen, | 女士们先生们, |
| 1808 | he kept a nation free enough for people like us | 他为我们这样的人保持了自由 |
| 1809 | to sit here and criticize him. | 坐在这批评他 |
| 1810 | He was no armchair patriot like you. | 他不是你这样的爱国者 |
| 1811 | He didn't fight for applause, he fought for survival. | 他没有为掌声而战,他为生存而战. |
| 1812 | He didn't chase approval abroad. | 他没有在国外寻求批准. |
| 1813 | He carried his nation on his back, | 他背着自己的国家, |
| 1814 | and God help this country if we ever hand it | 愿上帝保佑我们的国家 |
| 1815 | to someone who wouldn't. | 给一个不会的人 |
| 1816 | I commend the motion to the house, thank you. | 我向大家推荐这个动议,谢谢。 |
| 1817 | We're doing two more floor speeches. | 我们再做两层演讲 |
| 1818 | Is there anyone from the audience | 有观众吗? |
| 1819 | that wants to give a speech for side proposition? | 那想发表一个演讲 为副命题? |
| 1820 | For proposition? | 为了提议? |
| 1821 | Yep, the man in the back. | 对 后面那个男的 |
| 1822 | Excuse me, right. | 对不起 |
| 1823 | So I'm gonna be completely honest. | 所以我会完全诚实。 |
| 1824 | I did come here kind of thinking I'll argue | 我确实来这里 有点想我会争辩 |
| 1825 | for the opposition, but I think there's a fundamental | 但是我觉得有一个根本的 |
| 1826 | mistake in this debate question, | 这场辩论的错误问题, |
| 1827 | because we're debating if Churchill is a hero. | 因为我们在辩论丘吉尔是不是英雄 |
| 1828 | A hero is a mythological concept. | 英雄是一个神话概念. |
| 1829 | And in the modern mythology of Britain, | 在英国现代神话中 |
| 1830 | of the people that live here, | 他们是居住于此的民众, |
| 1831 | there's no doubt that he's a hero. | 毫无疑问他是英雄 |
| 1832 | It's almost tautological. | 几乎是同义词. |
| 1833 | Mythology is not something that's necessarily | "神话"不一定是 |
| 1834 | coherent, factual. | 连贯,实事求是。 |
| 1835 | It's just, it's mythology. | 只是,这是神话。 |
| 1836 | And the figure, the archetype of Churchill | 还有丘吉尔的典型人物 |
| 1837 | inspires Britain. | 激励英国。 |
| 1838 | And it's, therefore, I don't think it's, | 因此,我不认为... |
| 1839 | you should respect the mythology of a nation, | 你应该尊重一个民族的神话, |
| 1840 | of a country. | 一个国家。 |
| 1841 | For a lot of people, modern British history | 对很多人来说,现代英国历史 |
| 1842 | really only began in World War II, | 真正开始于二战 |
| 1843 | after World War II, as strange as it may seem. | 在二战之后 似乎有点奇怪 |
| 1844 | That's how a lot of people effectively treated us. | 很多人就是这样对待我们的。 |
| 1845 | And basically should respect the mythology of a people. | 基本上应该尊重一个民族的神话. |
| 1846 | And that's why I don't think it's really possible | 这就是为什么我不认为 这真的可能 |
| 1847 | to argue that Churchill is not a hero for Britain. | 认为丘吉尔不是英国的英雄 |
| 1848 | Sure. | 当然 |
| 1849 | Fair enough. | 不错 |
| 1850 | But he's still a hero for Britain, | 但他还是英国的英雄 |
| 1851 | for the modern popular British conception. | 为现代流行的英国概念。 |
| 1852 | So what I want to say is the following, though. | 我想说的是: |
| 1853 | If the question was, was he a good leader? | 如果问题是 他是个好领袖吗? |
| 1854 | Yeah, if the debate question was something like this, | 是啊,如果辩论的问题 是这样的, |
| 1855 | was he a good leader overall? | 他是一个很好的领导整体? |
| 1856 | Then you could have a more factual debate about it. | 然后,你可以有一个更 事实性的辩论。 |
| 1857 | And another thing I want to say is the following. | 还有一件事我想说: |
| 1858 | If World War II didn't live so large | 如果二战没有那么大 |
| 1859 | in the modern British imagination | 在现代英国的想象中 |
| 1860 | and the World War II victory, | 二战的胜利, |
| 1861 | if we focused instead, perhaps, on World War I, | 如果我们把注意力集中在第一次世界大战上 |
| 1862 | and this was like our big mythological foundation, | 这就像我们的神话基础, |
| 1863 | then we may see Churchill differently in that light, | 这样我们就能从这个角度看待丘吉尔了 |
| 1864 | because he was actually quite an aggressive proponent | 因为他实际上是一个相当积极的支持者 |
| 1865 | for war, in World War I, et cetera. | 战争,第一次世界大战,等等。 |
| 1866 | But as it stands, our modern mythology effectively | 但是现在,我们的现代神话 |
| 1867 | for this country is the importance of World War II, | 对于这个国家来说是二战的重要性, |
| 1868 | our resistance in it, winning it, | 我们的抵抗,赢得它, |
| 1869 | and therefore I think it's difficult | 因此我觉得很难 |
| 1870 | not to say that Churchill is not a hero. | 不要说丘吉尔不是英雄 |
| 1871 | That's it, thank you. | 好了,谢谢 |
| 1872 | Takers for opposition. | 采取反对者。 |
| 1873 | Good evening. | 边 |
| 1874 | I came into this house expecting that if I were to speak, | 我来到这所房子 期望如果我说话, |
| 1875 | I would be speaking on the opposite side. | 我会说反面。 |
| 1876 | I have all my life believed that Winston Churchill | 我一直相信温斯顿·丘吉尔 |
| 1877 | was one of the greatest Britons to have ever lived. | 是有史以来最伟大的英国人之一 |
| 1878 | I now speak on this side for two reasons. | 我现在在这边发言有两个原因。 |
| 1879 | Firstly, the compellingness of the arguments | 第一,论点的说服力 |
| 1880 | put forward by the opposition based on facts, not rhetoric. | 由反对派根据事实而不是言辞提出。 |
| 1881 | And I must confess also, | 我必须承认, |
| 1882 | I simply cannot stand on that podium | 我根本不能站在那个讲台上 |
| 1883 | and argue for the same side of the speakers | 并为同一方的发言者辩护 |
| 1884 | who have just stood up. | 他们刚刚站起来。 |
| 1885 | To stand there as someone running | 站在那里当跑步的人 |
| 1886 | for an elected office in this country | 担任该国民选职位 |
| 1887 | and say that I am not here to base my arguments | 并说,我不是在这里 我的论据 |
| 1888 | on statistics, on data, but on rhetoric. | 关于统计,关于数据,但关于言论。 |
| 1889 | You will be someone who will be making policy decisions | 你将会是做决策的人 |
| 1890 | in this country with a real impact | 在这个国家有真正影响 |
| 1891 | that shapes people's lives, | 塑造人们的生活, |
| 1892 | and to make statements like that, | 并做出这样的声明, |
| 1893 | I'm appalled, I'm genuinely appalled. | 我很震惊,我真的很震惊。 |
| 1894 | Yes, did I not say someone who could be, | 是的,我没有说谁可以, |
| 1895 | I believe I said someone who's running for the office, | 我想我说有人在竞选办公室 |
| 1896 | so they could, will be, okay, fine. | 所以他们可以,会,没事的。 |
| 1897 | Well, will if you win. | 如果你赢了会赢的 |
| 1898 | After that, I sincerely hope not. | 之后,我真诚希望不要。 |
| 1899 | Sincerely hope not. | 真诚的希望不是。 |
| 1900 | But the arguments put forward by, | 但提出的论点, |
| 1901 | to stick to the topic of debate, | 坚持辩论议题, |
| 1902 | the arguments put forward by the opposition | 反对派提出的论点 |
| 1903 | were, I must confess, I'm a reluctant convert. | 我不得不承认 我是个不愿皈依的人 |
| 1904 | Yes, I do genuinely believe | 是的,我确实相信 |
| 1905 | that Churchill motivated the British people. | 丘吉尔激励英国人民 |
| 1906 | His speech making and his rhetoric were unparalleled. | 他的演讲和言论是无与伦比的。 |
| 1907 | Yet, both from the arguments put forward by the opposition | 然而,从反对派提出的论点来看, |
| 1908 | and I'm so horrified to say the caliber of the proposition, | 我很震惊地说,这个提议的质量, |
| 1909 | I have to speak in opposition of the motion tonight. | 今晚我不得不反对动议 |
| 1910 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 1911 | After discussing with my Treasurer, | 在和我的司库讨论之后 |
| 1912 | I would like to award the floor speech | 我想颁奖演讲 |
| 1913 | to the first proposition speaker that spoke. | 给第一位演讲者 |
| 1914 | Next, I would like to ask Professor Simms | 接下来我要问西姆斯教授 |
| 1915 | to deliver the final speech for side opposition. | 以发表最后的演讲 以表达双方的反对。 |
| 1916 | Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, | 主席女士,女士们,先生们, |
| 1917 | I'd like to thank the Union Society | 感谢联合社 |
| 1918 | for the invitation to speak. | 请求发言。 |
| 1919 | It's a great honor and a pleasure. | 谓大尊大欢喜. |
| 1920 | It's a tribute to your authority, Madam President, | 这是对你权威的敬意,主席女士, |
| 1921 | that the short speech I'm about to give | 我将要作的简短演讲 |
| 1922 | is not the one that I originally intended to make. | 不是我原来想做的 |
| 1923 | As you know, I was first slated to argue | 如你所知,我第一次参加辩论 |
| 1924 | in favor of the proposition | 支持该提议 |
| 1925 | and was then asked to speak against instead. | 然后被要求说反对。 |
| 1926 | I follow your command, Madam President, | 我听从你的命令,主席女士, |
| 1927 | without question, but also with trepidation. | 毫无疑义,但也充满了恐惧。 |
| 1928 | Because we all know a certain former prime minister | 因为我们都知道某个前总理 |
| 1929 | and indeed former president of this union | 以及本工会的前任主席 |
| 1930 | elected exactly 40 years ago, | 40年前当选, |
| 1931 | who famously wrote two different newspaper columns | 他写了两个不同的报纸专栏 |
| 1932 | on Brexit, one for and one against. | 布雷克西特号上,一个反对,一个反对。 |
| 1933 | Before making up his mind how to vote. | 在决定如何投票之前 |
| 1934 | Actually, I've always regarded his way of proceeding | 其实,我一直想着他的行事方式 |
| 1935 | as less a sign of opportunism than of intellectual rigor, | 作为机会主义的标志 而不是智力的僵硬, |
| 1936 | trying to weigh up the arguments | 试图权衡争论 |
| 1937 | as any responsible person should. | 任何负责人都应该这样做。 |
| 1938 | Still, I would not like the House to think | 不过,我不希望 议会认为 |
| 1939 | that I can just turn on a dime | 我可以打开一毛钱 |
| 1940 | simply because I was commanded to do so. | 只是因为我奉命这么做 |
| 1941 | But I have another reason for concern. | 但我有理由担心 |
| 1942 | If our side prevails tonight, | 如果今晚我们一方获胜 |
| 1943 | which I very much hope it does, | 我非常希望这样 |
| 1944 | might we not be compared to an earlier House | 也许我们不被比喻为古老的天房, |
| 1945 | which in February of 1933 passed the motion, | 于1933年2月通过了这项动议, |
| 1946 | and I quote, that this House will under no circumstances | 我引用一句,本院在任何情况下都不会 |
| 1947 | fight for its king and country. | 为国王和国家而战 |
| 1948 | Now, this was taken by many abroad | 现在,这是许多 在国外拍摄的 |
| 1949 | as an indication that Britain | 表明英国 |
| 1950 | would not resist the dictators. | 他们不会反抗独裁者。 |
| 1951 | So if we vote that Winston Churchill is not a hero, | 如果我们投票认为温斯顿·丘吉尔不是英雄 |
| 1952 | and this seems in a way the burden | 这似乎是一种负担 |
| 1953 | of what Zia Youssef was arguing, | 以齐亚·优素福所争论的是非。 |
| 1954 | is there not a risk that Vladimir Putin | 弗拉基米尔·普京没有风险 |
| 1955 | or some other tyrant might draw a similar conclusion | 或者其他暴君可能得出类似的结论 |
| 1956 | about the UK's willingness | 关于英国的意愿 |
| 1957 | to defend the international order today? | 维护今天的国际秩序? |
| 1958 | Now, in important respects, of course, | 现在,在一些重要方面,当然, |
| 1959 | Churchill's life was plainly heroic. | 丘吉尔的一生很英勇 |
| 1960 | If we're talking about physical courage, as we heard, | 如果我们说的是身体上的勇气,就像我们听到的那样, |
| 1961 | he had it in abundance. | 他有丰富的。 |
| 1962 | He's a man who repeatedly put himself in harm's way | 他是个屡屡伤害自己的人 |
| 1963 | as a young officer on India's Northwestern frontier | 作为印度西北边疆的年轻军官 |
| 1964 | during the cavalry charge at Onderman, | 在昂德曼的骑兵部队中 |
| 1965 | or as we heard, as a war correspondent in South Africa. | 就像我们听到的 在南非的战时通讯员 |
| 1966 | If we're talking about moral courage, he had that too. | 如果我们说的是道德勇气,他也有 |
| 1967 | Churchill, as we've heard repeatedly, | 丘吉尔,我们屡次听到 |
| 1968 | opposed the appeasement of Hitler | 反对安抚希特勒 |
| 1969 | at a time when indulging Germany | 此时此刻,德国 |
| 1970 | seemed the smart thing to do. | 看起来很聪明 |
| 1971 | And of course, his record of public service, | 当然,他的公务记录, |
| 1972 | culminating but not ending | 最终但并未结束 |
| 1973 | with his epic wartime premiership, is well known. | 他以史诗般的战时首演,是众所周知的。 |
| 1974 | So, how do I dare to stand before you | 那么,我怎么敢站在你面前? . . |
| 1975 | and say that Churchill was not a hero? | 说丘吉尔不是英雄? |
| 1976 | After all, I'm not a Churchill biographer | 毕竟我不是丘吉尔传记作家 |
| 1977 | or an expert on early 20th century Britain. | 或者20世纪初英国的专家 |
| 1978 | If you go down the road to Blackwells, | 如果你去布莱克威尔斯 |
| 1979 | they have a whole section devoted to Churchill, | 他们有一整节关于丘吉尔, |
| 1980 | fine biographies, including those | 优秀的传记,包括 |
| 1981 | by Andrew Roberts and others. | 由安德鲁·罗伯茨等人创作. |
| 1982 | My name is not among the authors. | 我的名字不在作者之列。 |
| 1983 | If you go down a little bit further, | 如果你再往下走一点 |
| 1984 | you'll see section on Hitler. | 你会看到关于希特勒的部分。 |
| 1985 | I am present there. | 我在场。 |
| 1986 | I'm a humble historian of geopolitics. | 我是一个谦卑的地缘政治史学家. |
| 1987 | So, what do I have to offer tonight? | 那么,我今晚要提供什么? |
| 1988 | So, my objections are not the conventional ones. | 因此,我的反对不是常规的。 |
| 1989 | They're not to do with his domestic politics, | 他们和他国内的政治无关 |
| 1990 | which we heard about, which were sometimes divisive, | 我们所听说的, 有时是分裂的, |
| 1991 | his stance during the general strike, for example, | 例如,他在总罢工期间的立场, |
| 1992 | the rather wild rhetoric about the dangers | 相当疯狂的言论 关于危险 |
| 1993 | of a labor government in 1945, | 1945年的一个劳动政府, |
| 1994 | when he talked about Gestapo-like tendencies and so on. | 当他谈到类似盖世太保的倾向等等时. |
| 1995 | My objections are not motivated | 我的反对没有动机 |
| 1996 | by the serious strategic errors in both wars, | 两次战争的严重战略错误, |
| 1997 | some of which we heard about. | 一些我们听说的。 |
| 1998 | It's well known that Churchill, of course, | 众所周知,丘吉尔,当然, |
| 1999 | bore the burden of responsibility | 背负着责任 |
| 2000 | for the disastrous Dardanelles campaign. | 达达尼斯的灾难性运动。 |
| 2001 | And again, we heard about Norway, | 再说一遍 我们听说了挪威 |
| 2002 | which paradoxically, although a disaster, | 既使灾祸降临, |
| 2003 | helped to make him prime minister. | 帮助他成为首相. |
| 2004 | And then later he sent troops to Greece, | 后来他向希腊派遣军队 |
| 2005 | which provoked Hitler's intervention | 激起了希特勒的干预 |
| 2006 | and another military disaster. | 还有另一场军事灾难 |
| 2007 | Finally, there are, of course, | 最后,当然, |
| 2008 | the brutal aerial attacks on German cities, | 对德国城市的野蛮空袭 |
| 2009 | which killed countless civilians, | 杀死无数平民, |
| 2010 | operations which took place | 发生的行动 |
| 2011 | rather than concentrating on more military targets, | 而不是专注于更多的军事目标, |
| 2012 | and one could go on. | 还可以继续 |
| 2013 | My concerns are not even about Churchill's views | 我甚至不关心丘吉尔的观点 |
| 2014 | on race and empire, which are well known, | 种族和帝国, 众所周知, |
| 2015 | and we heard about them. | 我们听说了 |
| 2016 | Churchill was a man of his time, | 丘吉尔是他的时代的人, |
| 2017 | but his time was not the Britain of the 1930s, | 但他的时代不是1930年代的英国, |
| 2018 | when he was already an anachronism, | 当他已经过时了, |
| 2019 | but of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. | 但维多利亚时代晚期和爱德华时代早期 |
| 2020 | That said, one struggles to think | 这么说来,有人在思考 |
| 2021 | which great figures of the past | 过去最伟大的人物 |
| 2022 | would qualify for hero status | 将有资格获得英雄地位 |
| 2023 | when measured by the standards of our own time. | 以我们自己时代的标准来衡量 |
| 2024 | Not the Duke of Wellington, a military genius, | 不是威灵顿公爵 一个军事天才 |
| 2025 | but an avowed reactionary, not Franklin Roosevelt, | 却是一个被谴责的反动分子 而不是富兰克林·罗斯福 |
| 2026 | of course, complicit with Southern Democrats, | 当然,与南方民主党的同谋 |
| 2027 | not Martin Luther King, | 不是马丁·路德·金 |
| 2028 | given what we know about his private life, and so on. | 我们了解他的私生活,等等 |
| 2029 | We rightly judge all these people in their own context | 我们正确地判断所有这些人 他们自己的背景 |
| 2030 | and try to balance their achievements | 并努力平衡他们的成就 |
| 2031 | with their shortcomings. | 与他们的缺点。 |
| 2032 | So if Winston Churchill is not a hero overall, | 如果温斯顿·丘吉尔不是英雄 |
| 2033 | you might well ask, who is? | 你可能会问,谁是? |
| 2034 | Now, my objection is a different one, | 现在,我的反对是不同的, |
| 2035 | and it's inspired by Alec Ryrie's | 它的灵感来自艾力克・赖利 |
| 2036 | very stimulating little book, | 非常刺激的小书, |
| 2037 | The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It. | 希特勒时代和我们如何生存 |
| 2038 | Ryrie, who is a theologian, | 瑞丽,他是神学家 |
| 2039 | argues that after the Second World War, | 第二次世界大战后, |
| 2040 | Jesus Christ, who epitomized moral goodness, | 耶稣基督,谁 象征道德善良, |
| 2041 | was overtaken by Adolf Hitler, | 被阿道夫·希特勒所取代, |
| 2042 | who, of course, epitomized evil, | 当然,他们是恶人, |
| 2043 | and as the main moral referent. | 和作为主要的道德参考。 |
| 2044 | Today, he suggests, we are living in a post-Hitler age, | 今天,他暗示,我们生活在一个后希特勒时代, |
| 2045 | a time when the German dictator is, rightly or wrongly, | 德国独裁者是正确还是错误的 |
| 2046 | no longer the principal reference point, | 不再是主要参考点, |
| 2047 | either morally or politically. | 无论是道德还是政治。 |
| 2048 | And so, it should come as no surprise | 所以,它应该不奇怪 |
| 2049 | that Churchill, who has long been criticized on the left | 丘吉尔在左边长期受到批评 |
| 2050 | and, as we've heard, in parts of the Global South, | 正如我们所听到的 在全球南方的部分地区 |
| 2051 | is now increasingly under attack from the right, | 现在越来越受到右翼攻击 |
| 2052 | especially in the United States, | 特别是在美国, |
| 2053 | from the likes of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. | 塔克・卡尔森和尼克・富恩特斯 |
| 2054 | And I would suggest that in our age, | 我建议在我们这个年代 |
| 2055 | where Hitler has ceased to be the absolute evil, | 在希特勒不再是绝对邪恶的地方 |
| 2056 | his great nemesis, Winston Churchill, | 温斯顿·丘吉尔 |
| 2057 | can no longer be the absolute hero. | 不能再成为绝对的英雄了 |
| 2058 | And we've seen this recently in the well-meant, | 我们最近从美食中看到了这个 |
| 2059 | but ultimately, I think, misfiring attempts | 但归根结底,我认为, 错误的尝试 |
| 2060 | to mobilize Churchill's legacy in support of Ukraine. | 动员丘吉尔的遗产 支持乌克兰。 |
| 2061 | President Biden, for example, | 例如拜登总统 |
| 2062 | introduced the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act | 《乌克兰民主防卫租借法》 |
| 2063 | of 2022 to echo the World War II Lend-Lease Act, | 2022年的《二战租借法》 |
| 2064 | by which Roosevelt, of course, helped Churchill. | 罗斯福当然帮助丘吉尔 |
| 2065 | Some have compared the so-called crinks, | 一些人比较了所谓的凹陷, |
| 2066 | China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, | 中国、俄罗斯、伊朗和朝鲜 |
| 2067 | to the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan | 德国、意大利和日本的轴心国 |
| 2068 | during the Second World War. | 第二次世界大战期间 |
| 2069 | And President Zelensky of Ukraine | 乌克兰总统泽连斯基 |
| 2070 | has been rightly praised for his leadership | 他的领导能力受到赞扬 |
| 2071 | and widely compared to Winston Churchill | 并且与温斯顿·丘吉尔作广泛比较 |
| 2072 | as an inspirational figure. | 作为灵感的人物。 |
| 2073 | Now, there's a lot to these arguments, | 现在,有很多这些论点, |
| 2074 | but I think not enough to sustain them | 但我认为不足以维持他们 |
| 2075 | in the new post-Hitler age. | 在新的后希特勒时代。 |
| 2076 | In the end, most people do not think | 最终大多数人不会认为 |
| 2077 | that Vladimir Putin is Hitler, | 弗拉基米尔·普京是希特勒 |
| 2078 | is the Japanese emperor, | 是日本皇帝吗? |
| 2079 | or that Ayatollah Khamenei is Mussolini. | 或者阿亚图拉哈梅内伊是墨索里尼 |
| 2080 | And by extension, Churchill may have been, | 粗略地说,丘吉尔可能是, |
| 2081 | in his era, a hero, | 在他的时代,一个英雄, |
| 2082 | but his usefulness as a hero today is limited. | 但他今天作为英雄的用处有限 |
| 2083 | So it's time, ladies and gentlemen, | 时间到了 女士们先生们 |
| 2084 | not to abandon Churchill so much as to let go of him. | 不要放弃丘吉尔 以至于放弃他 |
| 2085 | Please do not misunderstand me. | 请不要误会我。 |
| 2086 | We face great dangers today, | 我们今天面临巨大的危险 |
| 2087 | some of them have been mentioned, | 他们中有被提及过的, |
| 2088 | from Russian aggression in Ukraine, | 俄罗斯侵略乌克兰 |
| 2089 | and perhaps in the Baltic and high north tomorrow, | 也许在波罗的海和高北 明天, |
| 2090 | from the People's Republic of China's threats | 中华人民共和国的威胁 |
| 2091 | to attack Taiwan and snuff out freedom there, | 攻击台湾 并扼杀在那里的自由, |
| 2092 | from Iranian or Iranian-inspired terrorism across the globe, | 来自伊朗或伊朗煽动的全球恐怖主义, |
| 2093 | and I'm afraid from the often eccentric behavior | 我害怕经常怪异的行为 |
| 2094 | of the President of the United States, | 美国总统, |
| 2095 | which makes his country a problematic ally today. | 这使得他的国家今天成为一个有问题的盟友。 |
| 2096 | He threatens, as you know, not merely to withdraw help, | 他威胁,你知道的, 不仅仅是撤回帮助, |
| 2097 | but actually menaces his partners. | 但实际上威胁了他的伙伴。 |
| 2098 | The America today is not one that Churchill would recognize, | 今天的美国不是丘吉尔会承认的 |
| 2099 | and consequently, he is a lot less relevant. | 因此,他没有那么重要。 |
| 2100 | And that's why we need new heroes, different heroes now. | 这就是为什么我们现在需要新的英雄,不同的英雄。 |
| 2101 | We can find them in the Hong Kong protesters | 我们可以在香港的抗议者中找到他们 |
| 2102 | resisting the tyranny of the CCP, | 反抗中共的暴政, |
| 2103 | the Chinese Communist Party, | 中国共产党, |
| 2104 | in the Iranian opposition crowds | 在伊朗反对派的人群中 |
| 2105 | who are so mercilessly suppressed by the mullahs, | 他们被毛拉无情地镇压, |
| 2106 | and of course, in the heroism of the Ukrainian people | 当然,在乌克兰人民的英雄主义中 |
| 2107 | and armed forces, who for nearly four years | 武装部队成员,已近四年 |
| 2108 | have stood alone against the onslaught | 曾独自抵抗进攻, |
| 2109 | of a vastly superior enemy. | 是一个超级强大的敌人 |
| 2110 | If we need heroes today in Britain, and we do, | 如果我们今天需要英国的英雄 而我们确实需要 |
| 2111 | we can find them in the submariners | 我们可以在潜水艇里找到他们 |
| 2112 | who track Russian submarines on a daily basis, | 他每天追踪俄国潜艇, |
| 2113 | or in the troops now deployed in the Baltic | 或现在部署在波罗的海的部队 |
| 2114 | as part of a deterrence mission. | 作为威慑任务的一部分 |
| 2115 | So it's for all these reasons that I ask you tonight | 所以我今晚才问你 |
| 2116 | not to disinter Winston Churchill from the national pantheon. | 不要让温斯顿·丘吉尔 离开国家泛神社 |
| 2117 | Whatever we say here, his place in British | 不管我们说什么,他住在英国 |
| 2118 | and in world history is secure, | 世界历史是安全的, |
| 2119 | but to vote in favor of heroism for our own time, | 但投票支持英雄主义 在我们自己的时间, |
| 2120 | and therefore to reject the proposition | 因此拒绝这一主张 |
| 2121 | that Winston Churchill is a hero to us today. | 温斯顿·丘吉尔今天是我们的英雄 |
| 2122 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 2123 | Thank you to all our speakers that came to speak today, | 感谢今天前来发言的所有发言者, |
| 2124 | and thank you to the members for being so attentive. | 并感谢你的关心。 |
| 2125 | I would like to remind everyone to please stay seated | 我想提醒大家请坐 |
| 2126 | while the speakers and their guests leave the room, | 扬声者及其客人出门的时候, |
| 2127 | and a reminder for everyone to vote by leaving, | 并教诲众人, |
| 2128 | either if you're voting yes or no for the motion, | 如果你对动议投了赞成或反对票, |
| 2129 | by using the door to do so, | 利用门这样做, |
| 2130 | and I will be announcing the results | 我将宣布结果 |
| 2131 | shortly. | 马上就来 |
| 2132 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 2133 | Thank you, everyone. | 谢谢大家 |
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