叙述者：从第一次世界大战的一开始 NARRATOR: From the start of the First World War,
德国就抓住了英国的最大弱点 Germany seized on Britain's greatest weakness:
一个庞大的帝国，很难防守，损失是注定的 a vast empire, hard to defend, fatal to lose.
英国人为了保护其帝国可能会倾尽一切作为赌注 The gamble was that Britain might risk everything to protect it
甚至是西线的胜利 even victory on the Western Front.
争夺欧洲的战争即意味着世界的战争 War for Europe meant war for the world.
德国的计划是将战火烧至欧洲以外 It was Germany's idea to take the war beyond Europe,
但这不是为了扩张，更不是为了称霸世界 but it wasn't a bid for expansion, let alone world domination.
攻击英帝国各处的目的是为了给在欧洲的英军施加压力 The aim was to take the pressure off her armies in Europe by attacking the British Empire,
希望其会分散军队、舰只、资源去捍卫遥远的殖民地 hoping to divert Britain's troops, ships and resources to defend distant colonies.
英国并不谋求再扩张帝国 Britain also had no thought of a bigger empire.
她只是不想失去任何一个属国 She just didn't want to lose the one she had.
因此，当德国希望将战火烧至全球时 So while Germany wanted to open the war up around the globe,
英国则不顾一切的到处做消防员 Britain was desperate to close it down.
Maurice Hankey是英国国防委员会大臣 Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence,
认识到：英帝国的各个属国是其致命的弱点 realised the Empire was Britain's Achilles heel,
并警告说要：要当心德国人利用这点来牵制英国 and warned against letting Germany use it to distract Britain from her war effort.
军队力量决不能为了些小目标而分散使用 Forces must not be diverted to minor operations
因为这会危害到重要目标和贸易线路的安全保障 to the prejudice of the concentration in the main theatre and the safety of the trade routes
15年前，德国就已经宣布要建立一个自己的殖民帝国 15 years before, Germany had proclaimed herself an empire-builder.
凯撒统治下进入20世纪的德国 The Kaiser had taken his country into the 20th century
犹如是海军上将正在建立一支全球的德国海军 as a German admiral creating a global German Navy.
国际政治是个庞大构思：海外帝国主义策略 Weltpolitik was the big idea; a policy of overseas imperialism
是外交部长Bernhard von Bulow独创的产物 the brainchild of his Foreign Secretary Bernhard von Bulow.
在德国缺席的日子里，一位邻居到处抢占着陆地 The days when the Germans left the earth to one neighbour
另一位到处抢占着海洋，唯有天空他们还没有染指 the sea to another and kept only the heavens for themselves are over
我们不想排挤掉谁 We don't want to put anyone in the shade
但我们需要拥有属于自己的日不落土地 but we too demand our place in the sun
德国是帝国扩张竞赛的晚来者 Germany had come late to the game of empires,
到了1900年，她拥有多哥，喀麦隆、德属西南部非洲 but by 1900, she had Togoland, Cameroon, German South West Africa, now Namibia,
现在是纳米比亚、德属东非、坦桑尼亚 and German East Africa, now Tanzania.
她的旗帜还飘扬在太平洋地区 Her flag flew over patches in the Pacific:
新几内亚，萨摩亚和密克罗尼西亚 New Guinea, Samoa and Micronesia.
在中国，她还有一个重要的立足点--青岛 She had a vital toehold in China at Tsingtao,
那里既能酿造啤酒，又能为她的舰船补充燃煤 where she re-coaled her ships, and brewed beer.
海军上将Alfred von Tirpitz将这仅仅视为开始 Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz saw this as just the start.
此刻我们正站在新一次瓜分全球殖民地的起点上 We are now standing only at the beginning of a new division of the globe
德国慷慨激昂的言论震惊了世界 Germany alarmed the world with her imperial tub-thumping.
她在波多黎各附诸行动 She eyed up Puerto Rico
并考虑在条件适当时占领巴拿马运河 and considered pouncing on the Panama Canal the minute it was completed.
但在凯撒的计划中最为大胆的是lll号计划 But the boldest of all the Kaiser's schemes was Operational Plan lll.
东海岸是美国的心脏地区也是她最脆弱的地区 The East Coast is the heart of the United States and this is where she is most vulnerable
炮轰的威胁必定会使纽约一片恐慌 New York will panic at the prospect of bombardment
并迫使她坐下来和谈 By hitting her here we can force America to negotiate
根据1903的德军秘密计划 Germany's secret plans from 1903:
排遣60艘船只和10万人进攻东海岸 to attack the Eastern seaboard with 60 ships and 100,000 men,
炮轰曼哈顿和控制波士顿 to shell Manhattan and capture Boston.
正是凯撒对美国在太平洋地区势力扩张的愤恨 The outlandish scheme was driven by the Kaiser's resentment
导致了这个荒诞的计划 of America's growing power in the Pacific.
他相信在一个军事国家，人们日益厌恶西方所代表的那套 He believed in a militarist state, and increasingly hated what the West stood for.
为了服务于对财富的无止境贪婪 Service to mammon greed self indulgence
强占土地而不惜背信弃义和没完没了的杀戮 land-grabbing lying treachery and not last murder
凯撒认为资本主义是脆弱的 The Kaiser thought capitalism was vulnerable,
若对其国际间的贸易、信贷、保险系统以予一次足够强大的打击 that a strong enough attack on its international systems of trade, credit and insurance,
就能将其整个彻底摧毁 could bring the edifice tumbling down.
lll号计划的降临，并不是出自对资本主义帝国的敌意 Operational Plan lll was dropped, but not the hostility towards capitalist empires.
在1912年之前，德国在国际政策上实行一种更为务实的策略 By 1912, Germany had traded in Weltpolitik for a more realistic policy.
此时她的军事机器正在为一场欧洲战争作准备，而不是全球战争 Now her military machine prepared for a European, not a global war,
陆军得到的预算大幅增加，而不是海军 and the Army got the budget increase, not the Navy.
战争爆发的第一天，德国的舰队就被 The first day of war found Germany's High Seas Fleet trapped
强大的英国海军束缚于北海 by the mighty British Navy in the North Sea.
所有德国海军对整个英帝国的威胁是 And all the German Navy had to threaten the entire British Empire,
分散在各处的且与柏林保持无线电联系的17艘巡洋舰 was a scattered force of 17 cruisers, linked by a wireless network to Berlin .
（无线电信号） (Radio signals)
Koeigsberg在东非附近的海域 There was the Koeigsberg off East Africa,
格本号和布雷斯劳号在地中海， the Geben and the Breslau in the Mediterranean,
德累斯顿号和卡尔斯鲁厄号在西印度群岛 the Dresden and Karlsruhe in the West Indies,
莱比锡号驶离美国的西海岸 the Leipzig off the west coast of America.
但是，大部分巡洋舰 But the greatest concentration of cruisers,
都隶属于Graf von Spee海军上将的东亚舰队，驻扎在青岛 was Admiral Graf von Spee's powerful East Asiatic Squadron, based at Tsingtao in China.
青岛给了德国一个巨大的行动空间 Tsingtao gave Germany a huge area of operations,
即能穿过南中国海又可以进入太平洋 across the South China Sea and into the Pacific.
控制青岛即扼住了德国舰队的脖子 Seizing it would cut the squadron's lifeline.
英国注意到了这个迫切性，但她实力不足 Britain saw the urgency but lacked the resources.
因此开战后的第二天，她转向盟友日本 So, two days into the war, she turned to her ally Japan.
日本是个正在崛起的国家，英国的要求正符合它的野心 Japan was a growing power. Britain's call for naval help suited her ambitions perfectly.
由英国和日本一起来夺取--青岛 Together,Britain and Japan would capture Tsingtao
----这个让凯撒感到骄傲和喜悦的、重要的德国海军基地 vital German base, and the Kaiser's pride and joy.
对于我而言，青岛失守投降给日本鬼子的耻辱远甚于当年的俄国 （即1905年日俄海战后，失守的旅顺 惨遭日本杂种蹂躏） It would shame me more to surrender Tsingtao to the Japanese than Berlin to the Russians
1914年9月2日，6万日军从海上登陆 On 2 September 1914, 60,000 Japanese troops landed up the coast,
破坏了中国的中立 violating China's neutrality.
它们与2000名英军会合 They met up with 2,000 British,
包围了为数4500人的德国守备队 and closed in on the German garrison of 4,500.
让人难以忍受的是我们能做的所有事情就是： 坐等这帮猴子的到来 It's unbearable All we can do is sit and wait for this bunch of monkeys to arrive
每一天，他们都前进一些 Every day they get a bit closer
无人有取胜的信心 No-one expects to get home in one piece
没有增援的希望 No hope of reinforcements
脖子上的绞索变的越来越紧 The noose around our necks is getting tighter and tighter
（炮火） (Artillery fire)
日军猛攻青岛一周 For a solid week, the Japanese battered Tsingtao.
12月7日，他们得胜进城 On 7 November, they entered the town in triumph.
一些德国人嘲笑英军的无能 Some Germans sneered at the token British force
要依靠日本人来完成其肮脏的任务 for getting the Japanese to do their dirty work.
英勇的英国！ The brave British!
他们在夺取青岛的战斗中毫无作为，却厚颜参加胜利阅兵 They played no part in the capture of Tsingtao but they joined in the victory parade
当他们经过时，我们德国人都听从口令转身背对他们 As they went by we Germans were ordered to turn our backs on them
英国人向日军指挥官抱怨，但他只是简单的说： The English complained to the Japanese commander but he simply said
就因为这样，我们不会再举行这种阅兵 ''Well we can't repeat the whole procession just because of that''
青岛的占领大大激发了日本的扩张野心 The capture of Tsingtao gave Japan a launch pad to pursue her empire building.
数周内，它既要求中国割据领土，又要求获得贸易权 Within weeks, she demanded territory and trading rights from China.
它夺取了德国在赤道以北的所有领地 Japan also seized all German possessions north of the equator.
澳大利亚和新西兰也乘机 迅速盗取了德国在太平洋赤道以南的殖民地 Australia and New Zealand were quick to steal those to the south.
英国默许了日本向太平洋地区的势力扩张 Much to America's frustration, Britain had empowered Japan in the Pacific,
这是整个进程中关键的一步，也将导致在四分之一个世纪后 发生让无数美国人倍受屈辱的珍珠港事件 key stage in a process that would lead, a quarter of a century later, to Pearl Harbor.
德国在青岛的失利，并没有立刻使Spee的舰队失去威胁 Germany's loss of Tsingtao, far from neutraliZing Spee's squadron,
不久世界各地就会感受到她的巨大破坏力 ensured its destructive power would be felt around the globe.
最优秀的德国海军指挥官们如Spee等人，毫无畏惧 The best German cruiser commanders, like Spee, were fearless mavericks
不久成为了这场战争中的英雄 whom the war turned into heroes.
他们是极优秀的水手，又有着海盗的本能 Superb sailors with the instincts of pirates.
凯撒授予他们在战争期间拥有一切自主决定的权利 The Kaiser had given them full authority to make their own decisions in wartime.
指挥官将承受艰巨的责任 The heavy responsibility of the officer in command
当舰船处于越来越孤立的境地时 will be increased by the isolated position of his ship
他决不能显露出丝毫的软弱 but he must never show one moment of weakness
指挥官必须牢记在心的首要责任是 Above all the officer must bear in mind
尽其一切所能，最大程度的打击敌人 that his chief duty is to damage the enemy as severely as possible
此时，Spee分散了他的舰队 Spee now split his squadron.
轻巡洋舰Emden，由Karl von Muller船长指挥驶向孟加拉湾 The light cruiser Emden, under Captain Karl von Muller, made for the Bay of Bengal.
Spee在沙恩霍斯特号上，率领其它舰船穿越太平洋 Spee, in the Scharnhorst, led his other ships across the Pacific.
我无家可归，不能回到德国 I am quite homeless I cannot reach Germany
我必须驰骋在全世界的各大洋上，尽我所能完成更多的使命 I must plough the seas of the world doing as much mischief as I can
在伦敦的海军部，邱吉尔正为Spee的飘忽影踪苦恼不已 At the Admiralty in London, Winston Churchill fretted about where Spee would show up next.
浩瀚的太平洋，众多的岛屿是他掩蔽的好场所 The vastness of the Pacific and its multitude of islands offered him their shelter
一旦他消失了，人们就会猜测下一次他会在哪里现身呢？ and once he had vanished who should say where he would reappear?
他犹如花瓶中一朵没有根的鲜花，已经时日不多了 He was a cut flower in a vase fair to see yet bound to die
但是只要他还存在着，我们就处于潜在的严重危险之下 But so long as he lived all our enterprises lay under the shadow of a serious potential danger
Spee始终有个无法摆脱的忧虑 Spee had a constant worry.
巡洋舰队每隔八到九天就需要加一次煤，不然就会漂在海上等死 Cruisers needed coal every eight or nine days or they'd be dead in the water.
他驶向中立国智利，那里有他需要的燃煤 He made for neutral Chile where he had coal waiting for him.
1914年11月1日，他来到了有着英国舰队的科罗内尔海域 On 1 November 1914, he ran into a British fleet off Coronel.
战后的一部故事片叙述了这场海战 The battle which followed inspired a post-war feature film.
英国指挥官是Christopher Cradock海军上将 The British commander was Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock,
直接受令于伦敦 under orders from London.
有迹象显示，Gneienau号与沙恩霍斯特号正驶往南美洲 It appears that Gneienau and Scharnhorst are working across to South America
做好与他们接战的准备 Be prepared to meet them in company
Cradock拥有一艘与Spee舰队相比，占绝对优势的军舰 Cradock had one ship that could outgun Spee's fleet,
但是她速度缓慢，并已经远远的落在后面 but she was slow and had been left behind.
此时，Cradock正要迎向的敌人比他拥有更大的优势 Now Cradock raced towards enemy ships better armed than his.
他忽视了自己的首要原则 He had ignored his own rule of thumb.
作为一个海军军官必须时刻保持头脑冷静、决断迅速 A naval officer should never let his boat go faster than his brain
我立即下令沙恩霍斯特号和Gneienau号全速前进 I immediately ordered Scharnhorst and Gneienau to go full steam ahead
在15分钟内，我就以20节的航速行驶在波涛汹涌的海面上 and within 15 minutes I was racing against heavy seas at 20 knots
与敌人保持平行航行 （1节也就是1.852公里/小时） and came to lie parallel with him
cradock的舰队不是Spee的对手 Cradock's ships were no match for Spee's.
好希望号与蒙默思号显然处境危难 Good Hope and Monmouth were obviously in distress
蒙默思号右舷剧烈燃烧脱离编队 Monmouth yawed off to starboard burning furiously
好希望号的主桅与后烟囱之间发生一次可怕的大爆炸 There was a terrible explosion on Good Hope between her main mast and her after funnel
迸发出的火焰高达200英尺 The gust of flames reached a height of over 200 feet
与飞溅出的云状残骸映红了半空 lighting up a cloud of debris that was flung still higher in the air
1600名英国水手阵亡 1,600 British sailors were lost.
这是250年来，英国海军最惨重的损失 It was Britain's worst naval defeat for 250 years.
全球战争以德国的模式进行着 The global war was going Germany's way.
只有当你亲眼目睹时才能体会到印度的价值 It is only when you get to see and realise what India is
她是英国实力的源泉与延伸 that she is the strength and the greatness of England
只有在那，你能感觉到犹如是一个人绷紧了他的每一根神经 it is only then that you feel that every nerve a man may strain
竭尽全力投身于这一伟大事业-- every energy he may put forward cannot be devoted to a noble purpose
将印度牢牢的掌握在我们自己的手中 than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves
英帝国与其贸易网络是她仅有的能带入战争的最大资源 Britain's empire and trading network was the single biggest resource she brought to the war.
印度正处于核心地位 And India was at the heart of it.
从没有这么吃紧过 The cords were never tighter.
对德国而言，有无数个理由想要切断英帝国的海上运输线 All the more reason for Germany to want them cut.
这些标示在地图上的运输线是激烈研究的焦点 These slender lines on the map were now the focus of intense study,
是德国与英国海军部的焦点，也是各艘战舰作战室的焦点 in the British and German admiralties, in the chart rooms of warships.
手指划过地图上的各条重要航道 Fingers traced the vital shipping lanes:
通过苏伊士运河 through the Suez Canal,
绕过南非的好望角 around South Africa's Cape.
费劲心思考虑：如何保护他们，如何切断他们 Minds pondered how to protect them, how to sever them.
其中最杰出者之一是德国Emden号巡洋舰的舰长 And one of the sharpest minds was on the bridge of the German cruiser Emden.
在脱离spee舰队的一个月后 A month after she left Admiral Spee's squadron,
Karl von Muller驶入孟加拉湾 Captain Karl von Muller steered her into the Bay of Bengal.
1932年，德国人为他的经历拍摄了一部故事片 In 1932, the Germans made a feature film about his odyssey.
在全体船员中，他有着无与伦比的威望 He had an indescribable power over the entire crew
他从不下令，只需要表示一下其愿望 He never gave orders he just expressed a wish
从受命独立指挥这艘军舰的那一刻起，他再没有离开舰桥 From the moment he took command of the ship he never left the bridge again
这是他站着睡觉和坐着研究地图的位置 This is where he stood slept sat studied the maps
这里也是他想要成功或是成仁的位置 This is where he wanted to be stand or fall
Emden号有时装扮上一个假烟囱， 使得她看起来就象是艘英国巡洋舰 The Emden sometimes rigged a dummy funnel to look like a British cruiser.
正前方出现的一艘巨大轮船，以为我们是艘英国战舰 A large steamer appeared dead ahead and thinking we were an English man-of-war
非常兴奋的升起了巨大的英国国旗 was so overjoyed at our presence that she hoisted a huge British flag
在我们升起德国国旗，非常礼貌周到的邀请那位船长过来 I'd like to have seen the look on her captain's face
与我们同行时，我很愿意看看当时他脸上的表情 when we hoisted our flag and invited him most graciously to tarry with us awhile
穆勒船长的名声越来越响亮，因为他在击沉对方的船只前 Captain Muller became famous for taking all crew and passengers safely onto the Emden
先将所有的船员与乘客安全的转移到Emden号上 before sinking their ship.
我们通常给他们时间整理与携带随身财产 We always allowed them time to collect and take with them their personal possessions
他们通常选择携带宝贵的威士忌 They usually devoted most of this time to making certain
而不是寻常的鱼类 that their precious supply of whisky was not wasted on the fishes
穆勒定期释放些感谢他的俘虏 Muller regularly released his grateful captives.
Emden号的影响 Such was the Emden's impact
使得英国海军部随即制订图表跟踪他的轨迹 that the British Admiralty later drew up this chart to track her movements.
穆勒甚至曾大胆的驶进过印度的马德拉斯港口 Muller even had the audacity to steam into the Indian port of Madras,
根据一位船员的日记记录 as a crew member recorded in his diary.
1914年9月22日 22 September 1914
下午9点30分 9:30pm
Emden偷偷的靠近、发射了25发炮弹 The Emden sneaks closer then fires 125 shots
一些击中了海港中的小船 Some hit boats in the harbour
油库上空窜出几柱巨大的火焰 Huge columns of fire rise above the oil tanks
海岸守卫部队开火还击，但都没有击中目标 The coastal defences open fire but they all fall shot
9月23日 23 September
此刻我们已经驶离100英里了 We are now 100 miles away
却还能看到马德拉斯的火焰 We can still see the fires at Madras
在伦敦，航运费和航运保险费急速攀升 In the City of London, freight rates and shipping insurance rocketed.
在孟加拉湾，整个英帝国的货运船队宁可都停泊在海港 At one point, the entire British trade fleet in the Bay of Bengal was kept in harbour
而不愿被活跃着的穆勒船长掠夺货物 rather than fall prey to dashing Captain Muller.
德国的骚扰巡洋舰开始危害英国的战争效果 Germany's rogue cruisers were starting to harm Britain's war effort.
出于对Emden号的恐惧，三艘运输船滞留在加尔各答 Three transports are delayed in Calcutta through fear of Emden
其中火炮和骑兵的运输也受到了耽误 This involves delaying transport of artillery and cavalry
内阁对此十分重视 The Cabinet took a strong view
消灭这些扰乱者成了最首要的任务 The extirpation of these pests is a most important subject
当Emden号在印度洋的这端极力扰乱着英国 While the Emden ran the British ragged at one end of the Indian Ocean,
25艘皇家海军军舰正在另一端--德国东非殖民地附近的海域 25 Royal Navy warships hunted the cruiser Keoigsberg at the other,
追捕Keoigsberg号巡洋舰 off the coast of Germany's East African colony.
她曾经在鲁菲吉河三角洲---她的秘密藏身处 She had raided Zanzibar and sunk a British light cruiser
突袭英国的桑吉巴号并击沉一艘轻巡洋舰 from her secret hideout in the Rufiji Delta.
气急败坏的英国人决定从坦噶港开始，扼杀她所有可能的基地 The frustrated British decided to strangle all her possible bases, starting with the port of Tanga.
1914年11月2日，英国舰队驶入这个海湾 On 2 November 1914, the British steamed into this bay.
在这场全球战争中，英帝国派到各殖民地作战的军队 In the global war, imperial powers got others to do their fighting.
绝大多数是印度军人 Most of the British troops were Indian.
Thomas Plantan密切注视着他们的到来 Their arrival was closely watched by Thomas Plantan,
这是个为德国服务的16岁非洲少年 a 16-year-old African fighting for the Germans.
正在接近的英国舰船开启了所有的探照灯 The approaching British ships had all their lights blazing
似乎要将登陆场照的一清二楚，让敌人无处躲藏 and seemed to be making no attempt to conceal their presence
我们埋伏在机枪旁，守侯着他们的到来 We were in position with machine guns waiting in ambush for them
当他们开始登陆时，许许多多人中弹阵亡 and many of them were killed when they started to come ashore
其中不少人甚至还没有上岸 A lot of them were killed before they even got out of the water
（机枪扫射） (Machine-gun fire)
Thomas Plantan 是德国指挥官Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck 所辖的2500名官兵之一 Thomas Plantan was one of 2,500 men under German commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.
英国人原以为坦噶不堪一击， 但他们的错误在于没有考虑到德军指挥官Lettow The British thought taking Tanga would be a pushover, but they reckoned without Lettow.
他是为普鲁士职业军人，坚毅而又有领导魅力 He was a professional Prussian soldier, hard as nails, charismatic.
Lettow是一位了不起的军人，不屈不挠且又诚恳。 Von Lettow was a remarkable soldier
我很幸运，以前没有碰到过这种对手 but stubborn and single-minded to a degree I have fortunately never experienced before
为了实现目标锲而不舍的干劲是他最显著的品质 His most remarkable quality was the reckless energy with which he pursued his goal
常常被他那擅长说服别人的、且运用自如的 This was often covered up by his persuasive charm
个人领导魅力所掩盖 which he could switch on if he wanted to.
在去非洲的船上，Lettow遇到了 日后写《走出非洲》的作者Karen Blixen， On the ship to Africa, von Lettow had met Karen Blixen, who would later write Out Of Africa.
无疑她被其魅力所倾倒 He clearly turned the charm on for her.
von Lettow是一位古老贵族家庭出身的德国军官 A German officer von Lettow who belongs to a very old Mechlenburger family
与我相处的如同是多年的好友 has been such a friend to me
在这里，你会听到人们是如何谈论他的 You should hear how they talk about him out here
将他视为这个时代最伟大的天才 as the greatest genius of the age
尽管在登陆时伤亡惨重，此时坦噶也感受到了来自英国的威胁 Despite losing men during the landing, the British now threatened Tanga.
总督Schnee下令Lettow宁可撤出该城也不希望其被毁灭 Governor Schnee ordered Lettow to evacuate the town rather than see it destroyed,
但是Lettow来到非洲是为了战斗 but Lettow had come to Africa to fight.
阻止敌人在坦噶获得一个立足点是至关重要的 It was crucial to prevent the enemy from gaining a foothold in Tanga
因为那里会成他们向北推进的根据地 thus giving him a base from which to advance north
总督为保全坦噶而撤退的命令并不能让我放弃这个战略 I coulnd't let the Governor's order to spare Tanga take precedence over this priority
Lettow尽其所能将英军束缚在原有位置 Lettow recced the British positions himself, on his bicycle.
他也要求增援 He also called in reinforcements.
三支德国部队乘火车抵达坦噶 Three companies of German troops came by rail to Tanga.
在这里，在1914年11月4日他们遭遇了英帝国的印度军队 ---既无经验又缺乏训练的印度军队 Here, on 4 November 1914, they met the British Indian soldiers - raw and poorly trained.
英国情报官Richard Meinertzhagen目睹了这随即而来的溃败 British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen watched the ensuing rout.
有一半的第13队拉其普特人瞬间就成了四处逃窜的乌合之众 Half the 13th Rajputs turned at once broke into a rabble and bolted
我简直不相信自己的眼睛 I could not believe my eyes
他们就象惊恐万状的猴子，不顾一切的四处奔逃 They were all jabbering like terrified monkeys and were clearly not for it at any price
密林中，敌人和战友混杂在一起 Everyone in the dense forest friend and foe was mixed up together
用各自不同的语言大声叫喊着 shouting in all sorts of languages
敌人溃逃的无序而混乱 The enemy ran off in wild disorder
我们的机枪将逃在后面的人统统扫倒 and our machine guns mowed down whole companies to the last man
（机枪扫射） (Machine-gun fire)
lettow的指挥部在这，在这个德国医院 Von Lettow was based here, at the German hospital.
经过两天的激烈战斗 After two days of heavy fighting,
英军派出Richard Meinertzhagen商谈投降 the British sent Richard Meinertzhagen to negotiate a surrender.
德国人很友善 The Germans were kindness itself
为我提供了一顿非常丰盛的早餐，这正是我所急需的 and gave me a most excellent breakfast which I sorely needed
我们无拘无束的讨论这场战斗，就象是在讨论足球赛 We dicussed the fight freely as though it had been a football match
如此的古怪，今天与我一起进餐的人 It seemed so odd that I should be having a meal today
也正是我昨天千方百计想要消灭的人 with people whom I was trying to kill yesterday
如此的荒唐 It seemed so wrong
使我疑惑：这是否是一场真实的战争？ and made me wonder whether this really was war
还是我们正在犯着一个巨大的错误？ or whether we'd all made a ghastly mitake
德国军官看起来都很坚毅、敏捷与称职 The German officers were all hard-looking keen and fit
他们将这场战争视为体育运动的新模式 They treated this war as some new form of sport
在坦噶的失利，英军付出了700人的伤亡 The British failed to take Tanga and suffered 700 casualties.
Lettow损失了65人 Lettow lost just 65.
在德国他受到英雄般的欢呼 Germany hailed him as a hero.
他犹如是古代神话中杀死巨人歌利亚的大卫 A German David is fighting alone against the Britih Goliath in Africa
如果我们不能与他一起并肩作战 If we cannot fight by his side
那么至少得确保给他提供充足的补给 at last we must make sure that he is well supplied with shot for his sling
但是英国的海上封锁阻碍了德国对Lettow的增援 But the British blockade of Germany prevented reinforcements reaching Lettow.
更远的东方，在印度洋的另一端 Muller船长依然是巨大破坏的制造者 Further east, across the Indian Ocean, Muller was still causing havoc.
他击沉了两艘战舰，俘获了二十三艘商船 He'd sunk two warships and captured 23 merchant ships.
1914年11月9日 On 9 November 1914,
Muller在科科斯群岛摧毁了一个英国无线电通讯站 the Emden anchored at the Cocos Islands to destroy the British wireless station.
但是电台的操作员识别出了Emden号的第四根假烟囱，并发出求救 But the radio operator spotted the Emden's bogus fourth funnel, and put out a call for help.
澳大利亚的巡洋舰悉尼号接受到了这信息 The Australian cruiser Sydney picked up the message
Emden号特立独行的游荡生涯终于结束了 and ended the Emden's maverick career.
Muller船长被俘 Captain Muller was taken prisoner.
他和其他生还者得到了良好的照顾 He and the other survivors were well looked after.
我亲爱的每一位家人，我境况很好，身体也健康 Dear loved ones I'm well and healthy
英国人很友好 The Britih were very friendly
他们给我们拍摄了许多照片，并向我们询问邮寄地址 They took loads of photos of us and asked for our addresses to send us the snaps
你的沃尔特 Yours Walter
Graf von Spee海军上将的好运也转变了 Now Admiral Graf von Spee's luck also ran out.
英国冒险从封锁北海的舰队中调拨出了两艘最新式的 Britain took the risk of detaching two of her latest battle cruisers
战斗巡洋舰前来对付他 from the crucial North Sea blockade of Germany to deal with him.
1914年12月8日，德国指挥官Hans Pochhammer 了望到他们的巨大桅杆 On 8 December 1914, German commander Hans Pochhammer sighted their huge masts
当他们正在福克兰岛的斯坦利港口加煤时 as they re-coaled in Port Stanley on the Falkland lslands.
他意识到德国舰船的炮火射程、航行速度都不如对方 He realised the Germans were out-gunned and out-paced.
我们就象是被紧紧的掐住了咽喉 We choked a little at the neck our throats contracted and stiffened
与其说这是生死一搏，还不如说这是光荣的战斗至最后一刻 for that meant a life-and-death grapple or rather a fight ending in honourable death
德国的舰队试图脱身，但英国的战斗巡洋舰速度很快 The German fleet tried to get away, but the British battle cruisers were too fast.
下午1时25分， spee转向迎战 At 1:25pm, Spee turned to face them.
但是英国战舰谨慎的保持在德军炮火射程之外， 而在自己射程的一万六千码处开火 But the British were careful to stay out of range of his guns, firing their own from 16,000 yards.
Canopus号战列舰上的Harry Bennett中将目睹了整个过程 Lieutenant Harry Bennett on HMS Canopus watched what happened
并画了这些水彩画 and painted these watercolours.
下午4时17分，Spee上将和他的所有部下 一起随着沙恩霍斯特号下沉 At 4:17pm, the Scharnhorst went down with Admiral von Spee and all hands.
下午6时02分格耐森瑙号与其大多数的船员一起沉没 包括spee上将的小儿子海因里希 At 6:02pm, the Gneisenau sank with most of its crew, including Spee's younger son Heinrich.
他的另一个儿子奥托在厄运缠绕的Nurnberg号上服役 His other son Otto was on the doomed Nurnberg.
这是令人害怕的一幕 The sight was one of fearful awe
她伴随着一系列优雅而流畅的动作，翻转并沉没 She turned over and sank with a graceful gliding motion
犹如是一位杂技演员在水面上的表演 as would a tumbler pressed over in a bowl of water
船上的德国水手们坚守至最后一刻 Those who went down in her were game to the end
我们看着他们在甲板上列队集合 For we saw a party of her men standing on the quarterdeck
伴随着飘扬的德国国旗一起下沉 waving the German ensign as she sank
沉向他们的水下坟墓 and so they went down into their watery grave
福克兰群岛的战斗预示着德国巡洋舰战役的结束 The Battle of the Falklands heralded the end of Germany's cruiser campaign.
她的全球战争不得不依赖于在陆地上战火的蔓延 Her global war would increasingly have to be fought on land.
她的指挥官们将又一次施展她那稀少的资源 引领英帝国与其针锋相对 Again, her commanders would stretch slim resources to lead the British Empire a dance.
苏伊士运河给德国人提供了一个骚扰英帝国的绝好机会 The Suez Canal presented a rare opportunity for Germany to harass the British Empire
那是一条易受到陆地进攻的重要航道 a crucial British sea lane vulnerable to attack by land forces.
但是德国人无法从西部战线上分出任何兵力 But Germany couldn't spare any men from the Western Front,
因此，柏林向奥斯曼土耳其求助 自1914年11月开始，她是德国的盟友 so Berlin turned to Ottoman Turkey, her ally since November 1914.
土耳其第四军驻扎在巴勒斯坦，距离苏伊士运河只有150英里 The Turkish 4th Army was stationed in Palestine, just 150 miles from the Suez Canal.
土耳其人同意派遣这为数一万九千人的军队占领苏伊士 The Turks agreed to help capture Suez, assigning these 19,000 troops.
他们将其视为自己重新征服埃及和利比亚的第一步 They saw it as the first stage in their own re-conquest of Egypt and Libya.
我们在晚上月光下行军，且严令禁止人工照明 We marched at night and only by moonlight
我的内心既充满着担忧又交织着对胜利的强烈盼望 My heart was filled with a deep melancholy mingled with great hope of success
伴随着歌声，先锋营的红旗 at the sound of the song The Red Flag Flies Over Cairo
向开罗不断挺进 to the accompaniment of which the advancing battalions forged ahead
挺进在无边无际的荒芜的沙漠中 over the endless waste of desert
在朦胧的月光下，四周映出模糊的苍白景象 feebly illuminated by the pale gleam of the waxing moon
土耳其人得运输榴弹炮、浮桥桶 The Turks had to transport howitzers, floating pontoons,
食物、水穿越西奈沙漠 ，并做到了没有损失一个人 food and water across the Sinai Desert and didn't lose a single man.
1915年2月3日凌晨，他们抵达苏伊士运河 In the early hours of 3 February 1915, they reached the Suez Canal.
计划的制定者---一位德国上校，目睹了可怕错误的演变 The German colonel who had planned the operation now watched it go horribly wrong.
一个哨兵发现了我们的进攻，并开枪 A sentry noticed our attack and fired
枪声引起了混乱 The shots created panic
英国人用机枪疯狂的扫射堤岸 The English then blasted the banks with machine-gun fire
（机枪扫射） (Machine-gun fire)
土耳其人发现运河的防御是由九艘战舰和 The Turks found the Canal defended by nine British warships
三万名驻扎在防御阵地的印度军人组成 and 30,000 Indian troops, dug in to defensive positions.
奥斯曼军队遭受了1200人的伤亡 The Ottoman troops suffered 1,200 casualties.
剩余部队撤退到沙漠的另一端 The survivors retreated across the desert.
进攻失败了，但是非洲此刻成了全球战争的一个战场 The attack had failed, but Africa was now a battleground in Germany's global war.
在那她有三个行动基地 She had three bases of operations:
Lettow依然活跃在德属东非的喀麦隆 the Cameroons, German East Africa, where Lettow was still at large,
德属的非洲西南部也部署着她的港口和无线电通讯站 and German South West Africa, with its ports and wireless stations.
对英国幸运的是：那里附近有一个自己的殖民地 Luckily for Britain , she had a colony right next door.
不幸的是：该殖民地的忠诚度很低 Unluckily, it was the one whose loyalty she could least rely on.
南非联邦 是种族多样化的国家 The Union of South Africa was racially diverse:
包括黑人、布尔人和英国定居者 Blacks, Boers and British settlers.
仅仅在15年前，英国对布尔人发动了一场长期、血腥的战争 Just 15 years before, Britain had fought a long, bloody war against the Boers.
许多人对英国毫无好感，也别指望他们对英国有什么忠诚 Many still had little love for Britain. Their loyalty could not be counted on.
正如一位指挥官对南非首相Louis Botha所言： As one commander told South Africa's prime minister, Louis Botha:
我们已经做好了作战准备，但敌人是英国还是德国呢？ My men are ready Whom do we fight the English or the Germans?
但是南非正处于进攻德属西南非的最佳时刻 But South Africa was ideally situated to launch an attack on German South West Africa.
英国殖民地大臣Lewis Harcourt参与其中 British Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt took the gamble.
如果你们的部长们愿意并觉得能够从德国人手中夺取非洲西南部 If your ministers desire and feel themselves able to seize such part of German South West Africa
就能得到无线电通讯站那里的所有权 as will give them the command of the wirelss stations there
我们觉得这是对英帝国作出的重大而又及时的贡献 we should feel this was a great and urgent Imperial service
南非政府欣然同意 South Africa's government readily agreed,
因为她也有着自己的迷你的帝国主义野心 because it had mini-imperial ambitions of its own.
为自己夺取德属西南部非洲 It wanted to seize German South West for itself.
1914年9月14日 On 14 September 1914,
南非军队越过橙河进入德属领地 South African forces crossed the Orange River into German South West.
但是，德国人占了先机 But the Germans were one jump ahead,
当南非人在桑德方丹找到个水源并稍作休息时 as the South Africans found out when they paused at the watering hole of Sandfontein.
（机枪扫射） (Machine-gun fire)
（炮火） (Artillery fire)
南非惨遭痛击 The South Africans were beaten.
但是更糟糕的事情还在后面 But there was worse to come
南非的局部地区发生了武装叛乱 Part of South Africa now rose up in armed rebellion.
Manie Maritz在北开普指挥军队 Commanding the forces in the Northern Cape was Manie Maritz.
他勇敢而又顽强 Fearless and uncompromising,
Maritz在布尔战争中和英国人打过惨烈的游击战 Maritz had fought a vicious guerrilla campaign against Britain in the Boer War.
他完全倾向德国 His sympathies lay entirely with Germany.
我收到份电报，命令我派遣一支大突击队 I received a telegram ordering me to take a large commando
进攻德属的西南部非洲 into German South West Africa
我决不为了英帝国的利益而参战 I was determined not to fight on behalf of the British Empire
军官和士兵们也完全支持我 and my officers and troops were in full accord with me
1914年10月， Maritz渡过橙河到达德国在Schuit Drift的领地 In October 1914, Manie Maritz crossed the Orange River to German territory at Schuit Drift
谋取德国的支持 to enlist German support.
两天后，Maritz在这棵树下向军队发表演说 Two days later, Maritz addressed his troops under this tree.
此刻不愿被犹太人和英国金融家统治的人--- Now men we don't want to be ruled by the Jews and the financiers of England
---Beyers将军、De Wet将军和我，决定 General Beyers General De Wet and myself have decided
成立一个独立的南非共和国 to form an independent South African Republic
我们已经和德国西南非洲的总督签订了一个协定 and have entered into an agreement with the Governor of German South West Africa
他们会给我们提供武器和弹药 They will provide us with arms and ammunition guns
作出这个决定是当地民众的权利与自由 On this step depends the freedom of the masses of the country
南非为满足英国的要求，走到了内战的边缘 Britain's request for help had brought her dominion to the brink of civil war.
在伦敦，殖民地大臣Lewis Harcourt In London, the Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt
为南非联盟的分裂而忧心重重 feared the break-up of the Union of South Africa.
他秘密的派遣三万澳大利亚士兵前往开普扼杀叛乱 He secretly ordered 30,000 Australian soldiers diverted to the Cape to smother the rebellion.
是最首要的是：维护联盟的安全 Safety of the Union is first and paramount consideration
相比较而言，德属西南非是次要的 We attach no importance to German South West Africa in comparion
澳大利亚士兵是不需要的 The Australians weren't needed.
1914年冬天,南非军队击败了布尔人的叛乱 In the winter of 1914, the loyal South Africans defeated the Boer rebels.
这是他们其中50人在开普敦接受审判时的珍贵电影资料 This is rare film of 50 of them being led to trial in Cape Town .
不过他们没有抓住Manie Maritz But they never caught Manie Maritz.
到了1915年7月，南非战胜了德国人 By July 1915, South Africa cornered the Germans,
迫使他们投降并吞并了他们的殖民地 forced their surrender and annexed their colony.
此时在南非的北部，英国人有更多的事情要做 And Britain had more work for South Africa
希望能一劳永逸的解决掉Lettow north this time, to deal once and for all with von Lettow.
伦敦请南非的国防大臣Jannie Smuts亲自领导这场战役 London turned to South Africa's Defence Minister to lead the campaign, Jannie Smuts.
Smuts也参加过布尔战争，但是此刻是积极的亲英派 Smuts too had fought in the Boer War, but was now passionately pro-British.
与其说他是个战士，还不如说他更象是一个政治家 在传统军队中他是个平庸的将军 More a statesman than a soldier, Smuts made an indifferent general of conventional forces.
此时由他出来对付Lettow And he was up against Lettow.
英国军官Richard Meinertzhagen现在是Smuts情报官 British officer Richard Meinertzhagen was now Smuts's intelligence officer.
Smuts很明确的表示要避免打一场惨烈的战斗 Smuts is quite determined to avoid a stand-up fight
他告诉我，他才不愿意回到南非时 He told me he could not afford to go back to South Africa
被人起个“屠夫Smuts”的绰号 with the nickname Butcher Smuts
如果Lettow聪明而Smuts又不是很聪明的话，事情就将变的麻烦了 If von Lettow is clever and Smuts not clever enough there is going to be trouble
Lettow是聪明的 Lettow was clever
这是他在莫希火车站的指挥部 Here at his headquarters at Moshi railway station,
他持有的观点是：将战火烧至非洲能够 he thought through the idea of depriving Britain of manpower in Europe,
分散英国人在欧洲的人力资源 by opening up the war in Africa.
问题是我们能否用少量的军队 The question was could we with our small forces
有效的牵制住相当数量的敌人，使之不被调往欧洲 prevent considerable numbers of the enemy from intervening in Europe
或对他们的军用物资与部队予以毁灭性的打击 or inflict substantial damage on their armaments and troops?
我坚信，我们可以做到 I strongly believed that we could
到了1916年8月， lettow已经成了这猫鼠游戏的专家 By August 1916, Lettow had become expert at his cat-and-mouse game.
他很精明，并不会轻易上钩 Von Lettow is slippery and is not going to be caught by manoeuvre
而且比我们更加熟悉这个国家 He knows the country better than we do
我认为我们是在玩一场昂贵的捉迷藏游戏 I think we are in for an expensive hide-and-seek
Lettow依然那么活跃 and von Lettow will still be cuckooing
当战斗在热带非洲的某地暂时停止时 somewhere in tropical Africa when the cease-fire goes
Smuts已经花费了数以百万计的英镑和付出数百人的生命 Smuts has cost Britain many hundreds of lives and many millions of pounds
Lettow指挥着人数达一万五千人的军队， 其中大多是黑人，实施随机应变的游击战 Lettow ran his force of up to 15,000 soldiers, mostly Black, on scrounging and improvisation.
1916年3月之后，他再没得到德国的物资供应 No supplies from Germany reached him after March 1916,
但他还有很长的路要走，正如他的一名军医所记载的 but he made a little go a long way, as Ludwig Deppe, one of his medical officers, noted.
当没有弹药时，Lettow 会试图自己来制造 When there was no ammunition Lettow would try to produce his own cartridges
如果有人向指挥官提供武器和衣服， 就会被告知“到敌人那里去取” If the men asked the commander for weapons or clothes they were told ''Take it from the enemy''
Lettow采用以战养战的策略 Lettow made war at cost-price
你完全有理由给发生在这个国家的此次战争，挂上个出售标牌 You'd have been justified in displaying this war at a country fair with a for-sale sign
“世界上最廉价的战争” ''Cheapest war in the world''
Jannie Smuts拥有的军队和资源是Lettow的五倍 Jannie Smuts had five times Lettow's force and resources to match.
但随着向德属东非的深入，供给线也日益延长 But the further he went into German East Africa, the more stretched his supply lines.
他估算即使不考虑苍蝇幼虫的危害 And he reckoned without the killer tsetse fly.
所属5万匹军马的预期寿命也就一个月而已 The life expectancy for his 50,000 horses was just four weeks.
暴雨、泥泞、灰尘和酷热拖慢了他的前进步伐 Torrential rain, mud, dust and boiling heat further slowed his progress.
情报粗略、地图短缺 Intelligence was sketchy, maps inadequate.
电话线常常要架设到八米高处，以免遭到长颈鹿的破坏 Telephone cable often had to be raised to eight metres to avoid damage by giraffes.
过去的几天就象是场战斗 This is like warfare of bygone days
我们披荆斩棘，行进在没有道路的地方 We come along where no road had ever been
那里或许是白人从没有光顾的地方 where probably White man had never trod before
河水泛滥，我们无法渡过 The river is in flood and we can't get across
对岸的德国巡逻密切注视着我们 On the other side the German patrol are watching us
不过河中的鳄鱼成功的维持着和平 but the crocodile hold the peace between us very successfully
Lettow尽力避免作战，牵引着Smuts深入非洲 Lettow played with Smuts, refusing to fight, slipping away, luring him deeper into Africa.
所到之处，散布着战争的伤痛和破坏 As they went, they spread the war's grief and destruction,
将越来越多的非洲人民拖进战争的泥潭 dragging in more and more of the people of Africa.
这场战争也骑上了非洲黑人的后背 This war was being carried on the backs of Black Africans.
为了与Lettow 作战，英军招募了100多万黑人当脚夫 For the Lettow campaign alone, the British recruited over a million Black porters.
其中五分之一死于疾病和营养不良 One in five died, from malnutrition and disease
这与西线战场上的死亡率相似 death rates comparable with those on the Western Front.
他们默默的忍受着残酷的考验 They endured their ordeal quietly
他们只有职责而没有任何权利 They only had duties and hardly any rights
一旦他们背负着重物摔倒在泥潭里 They tumbled into the splashing mud with their heavy loads
就会受到无情的呵责与催促 and were then ruthlessly forced to move on and catch up
''哦,通往林娣的道路尘土飞扬 ''Oh the Lindi Road was dusty
通往林娣的道路漫长无际” And the Lindi Road was long
承受着这最艰辛苦差的是来自卡韦朗多的脚夫 But the chap what did the hardest graft who could not do but wrong
他们除了能喊他们的卡韦朗多号子外，做什么都是错 Was the Kavirondo porter with his Kavirondo song
“到这里来，脚夫” It was 'Come here porter'!
Omera没有抱怨，他只是做他份内的事 And Omera didn't grumble he simply did his bit''
Smuts在战场尽力要避免的伤亡，出现在医院里 What Smuts saves on the battlfield he loses in hospital
在非洲我们真正的敌人不是德国人而是天气 for it is Africa and the climate we are really fighting not the Germans
到了1917年初，超过2万南非军人中的一半退役回家了 Out of 20,000 South Africans, over half were invalided home by the beginning of 1917.
取而代之的是来自尼日利亚和加纳的黑人军队 They were replaced by Black troops from Nigeria and Ghana.
从东非补充来的新兵源源不断 Recruitment of Blacks soared in East Africa as well.
皇家部队的非洲士兵数量由战争开始时的三千人 飙升至结束时的三万五千人 Over the course of the war, the King's African Rifles rose from 3,000 men to 35,000.
Fololiyani longwe的所言，在许多黑人士兵中很有代表性 Fololiyani Longwe spoke for many Black soldiers.
想象下你就象是被埋在个地洞里，只有头和双手露在外面 Think of yourself buried in a hole with only your head and hands outside
紧握着步枪，周围到处充斥着死亡的气息 holding a gun death smelling all over the place
倾听着炮弹爆炸与机枪扫射的声音 Listen to the sound of exploding bombs and machine guns
到处都是冒着黑烟的植被，树林都被砍伐殆尽 smoke all over and the vegetation burnt and of course deforested
眼睁睁的看着你的亲人受伤、哭喊着最终死去 Watch your relatives getting killed crying finally dead
这一切都是我们亲身经历和目睹过的 These things we did experienced and saw
Lettow战斗至战争结束，并于1919年骄傲的回到柏林 Lettow survived undefeated to the very end, marching triumphantly through Berlin in 1919.
英国人没能抓住他，即使他们派谴军队尾随着 The British never caught him, even though they turned it into an African war
把整个非洲变成了战场 and set an army on his tail.
不过英国和法国在他们的殖民地所储备着的人力资源 But Britain and France had such reserves of manpower in their colonies
从1914年起，就开始运往欧洲 that from 1914, they shipped them to Europe.
这些法国彩色照片记录下了 在西线服役的来自世界各地的人们 Remarkable French colour photographs of the world that came to serve on the Western Front.
法国将军Charles Mangin曾计算过 French General Charles Mangin had calculated
法国能在殖民地动员30万人到欧洲作战 that France could raise up to 300,000 from her empire for Europe.
没有人相信他 No-one believed him.
但事实上，他们动员了60万人 But, in fact, they mobilised double that number.
Mangin将军：黑人军队有着些的优秀品质 MANGIN : Black troops have precisely those qualities
也正是在现代战争中要长时间磨练才能获得的品质 which are demanded in the long struggles of modern war
耐心、顽强不屈的作战本能 endurance tenacity the instinct for combat
冷静而又能在瞬间产生的爆发力 the absence of nervousness and an incomparable power of shock
他们不仅是喜欢危险的冒险生涯 Not only do they enjoy danger a life of adventure
而且是实质上的享受成瘾 （不知道单词dicisplinable的意思，胡乱翻译的） but they are also essentially dicisplinable
人们开始躲避与逃离营地 People started hiding and running away from the camp
那儿有着各种各样的疾病，甚至是心理疾病 There were all kinds of illnesses even psychological illness
人们不知道他们要去那里，也不知道他们为何要参加战斗 People didn't know where they were going or even why they were fighting
有传言说：我们会被当作奴隶卖掉再也不会回家 There were rumours that we would never come back that we are going to be sold as slaves
印度在战争中为英帝国提供了175万人 India provided Britain with 1 3/4 million men in the war.
从一开始他们就被投入到那些最残酷的战斗 They had been thrown into some of the toughest fighting from the start.
一个印度士兵写信给朋友 One Indian wrote to a friend:
这场战争是个灾难，令我飘洋过海生活在这里 The war is a calamity on three worlds and has caused me to cross the seas and live here
这儿天气寒冷的无法用语言来描述 The cold is so great that it cannot be described
我们已经有四个月没有见到太阳了 We have not seen the sun for four months
我们都是牺牲品 Thus we are sacrificed
我晚上不能安睡，白天也不能娱乐 I have neither slept by night nor ease by day
真希望这场战争从没有爆发，以后也永远不要发生 There can never have been such a war before nor will there ever be again
一些人如Jason Jingo，过去习惯于殖民地种族主义统治的人 Some men like Jason Jingo, used to the habitual racism of colonial rule,
回家时拥有了更多的自尊 returned home with greater self-esteem.
我们喜欢待在法国的光阴 We had liked all time in France
这是我们在没有种族歧视环境中的第一次经历 It was our first experience of living in a society without a colour bar
我们与在家乡的人们不同 We were different from the other people at home
所展现出的行为举止 Our behaviour as we showed the South Africans
在某些方面甚至超出了他们对本国公民的期望 was something more than they'd expected from a native
我们不仅效仿欧洲人的礼貌与风俗，还与他们一起生活过 We had copied the manners and customs of the Europeans and not only copied, we lived them
但是当Jason Jingo和其他幸存者回去时 非洲已经不再是大战以前的非洲的了 But it wasn't the same Africa Jason Jingo and the other survivors came back to after the war.
一旦被帝国主义染指，非洲的许多地方已变成了荒芜之地 The empires which once carved it up had now turned parts of it into a wasteland,
正如德国军医Ludwig Deppe所指出的 as German medic Ludwig Deppe realised.
我们离开后留下的是被毁坏的土地，饥荒即将到来 Behind us we leave destroyed fields and for the immediate future starvation
我们不再是文质彬彬的间谍了 We are no longer the agents of civilization
无情的掠夺和遗弃的村庄是我们所到之处的标记 Our path is marked by death plundering and deserted villages
非洲民族主义的爆发还需要些时日，但是有些国家出现了萌芽 It would be years before African nationalism took off, but a few had begun the journey.
在1914年，John Chilembwe向 战争的本质与非洲在其中的处境提出质疑 In 1914, John Chilembwe challenged the basis of the war and Africa's place in it.
他的言辞在未来几年里始终萦绕着殖民地官员们 And his words would haunt colonial officials for years to come.
应该让那些富裕的银行家、有各种头衔的男人 Let the rich mean bankers, titled men
店主、农场主和地主们去打仗和挨枪子 storekeepers, farmers and landlords go to war and get shot
让那些非洲穷人原离战争吧，他们在当今的这个世界一无所有 Instead the poor Africans who have nothing to own in this present world
他们战死后遗留下的大批寡妇与孤儿，都处于无法想象的悲惨境地 who in death leave only a long line of widows and orphans in utter want and dire distress
巨大伤亡的战争本与他们毫无关系 are invited to die for a cause which is not theirs
德国发动了场瞩目的全球战争 Germany had fought a remarkable global war.
但是为此她要付出代价是： 她的巡洋舰、她的无线电网络以及她的所有殖民地 But it cost her her cruisers, her wireless network, and all her colonies.
同时也迫使英国和法国将他们的殖民地与盟国都卷入了战争 Yet Germany had forced Britain and France to call on their empires and lean on their allies.
在这进程中，打破了他们原有的势力平衡， 逐渐形成了他们各自的帝国 In the process, these flexed their muscles and formed empires of their own.
第一次世界大战见证了最后一次对非洲的争夺 The First World War saw the last scramble for Africa.
凯撒所憎恨的那些事物----抢占土地，贪欲和资本主义 And the ideas the Kaiser had so hated land-grabbing, avarice and capitalism
事实上被传播的更加广泛 had in fact been spread wider.
就目前而言，帝国主义比以往任何时候都显得成功 For the moment, imperialism looked more successful than it had ever been.
在下一集的第一次世界大战中将介绍： In the next episode of the First World War:
中东发出了圣战的呼唤 the call goes out for jihad, holy war, in the Middle East,
英军在加里波利的噩梦，以及亚美尼亚民族的灭顶之灾 the nightmare of Gallipoli and the agony of the Armenian people.