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名人演讲:We Shall Never Surrender 我们誓不投降[温斯顿·丘吉尔]

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We Shall Never Surrender 我们誓不投降 Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔

We Shall Never Surrender 我们誓不投降 Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔
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  • [00:00.52]When, a week ago today,
  • [00:03.52]Mr.Speaker
  • [00:04.89]I asked the house to fix this afternoon
  • [00:08.67]as the occasion for a statement,
  • [00:11.25]I feared it would be my hard lot
  • [00:14.06]to announce the greatest military disaster
  • [00:18.41]in our long history.
  • [00:21.79]I thought and some good judges agreed with me
  • [00:26.71]that perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked.
  • [00:31.61]But it certainly seemed that
  • [00:34.19]the whole of the French first army
  • [00:35.30]and the whole of the British Expeditionary Force
  • [00:40.21]north of the Amiens-Abbeville gap
  • [00:44.32]would be broken up in the open field
  • [00:47.98]or else would have to capitulate
  • [00:49.90]for lack of food and ammunition.
  • [00:52.27]These were the hard and heavy tidings
  • [00:55.25]for which I called upon the house
  • [00:58.30]and the nation to prepare themselves a week ago.
  • [01:02.10]The whole root and core and brain of the British army,
  • [01:08.16]on which and around which
  • [01:10.68]we were to build, and are to build,
  • [01:13.87]the great British armies in the later years of the war,
  • [01:18.42]seemed about to perish upon the field
  • [01:21.05]or to be led into an ignominious and starving captivity.
  • [01:26.51]The enemy attacked us on all sides
  • [01:30.58]with great strength and fierceness,
  • [01:33.42]and their main power,
  • [01:35.59]the power of their far more numerous air force,
  • [01:38.91]was thrown into the battle or else concentrated
  • [01:43.38]upon Dunkirk and the beaches.
  • [01:45.60]Pressing in upon the narrow exit,
  • [01:49.69]both from the east and from the west,
  • [01:52.13]the enemy began to fire with cannon
  • [01:55.37]upon the beaches by which alone
  • [01:57.34]the shipping could approach or depart.
  • [01:59.98]They sowed magnetic mines in the channels and seas;
  • [02:03.46]they sent repeated waves of hostile aircraft,
  • [02:07.27]sometimes more than 100 strong in one formation,
  • [02:11.22]to cast their bombs upon the single pier that remained,
  • [02:15.31]and upon the sand dunes
  • [02:17.59]on which the troops had their only shelter.
  • [02:23.32]Their U-boats, one of which was sunk,
  • [02:26.20]and their motor launches took their toll
  • [02:29.40]of the vast traffic which now began.
  • [02:33.45]For four or five days an intense struggle reigned.
  • [02:37.19]All their armoured divisions
  • [02:39.24]or what was left of them
  • [02:41.07]together with great masses of infantry and artillery,
  • [02:44.11]hurled themselves in vain
  • [02:45.79]upon the ever-narrowing, ever-contracting appendix
  • [02:50.03]within which the British and French armies fought.
  • [02:54.93]Meanwhile, the Royal Navy,
  • [02:56.77]with the willing help of countless merchant seamen,
  • [03:00.46]strained every nerve to embark the British
  • [03:03.61]and allied troops
  • [03:05.79]220 light warships
  • [03:09.13]and 650 other vessels were engaged.
  • [03:13.69]They had to operate upon the difficult coast
  • [03:16.92]often in adverse weather
  • [03:19.25]under an almost ceaseless hail of bombs
  • [03:22.29]and an increasing concentration of artillery fire.
  • [03:26.83]Nor were the seas, as I have said,
  • [03:30.43]themselves free from mines and torpedoes.
  • [03:32.66]It was in conditions such as these
  • [03:34.65]that our men carried on,
  • [03:37.58]with little or no rest
  • [03:39.40]for days and nights on end,
  • [03:42.03]making trip after trip
  • [03:43.99]across the dangerous waters,
  • [03:46.59]bringing with them
  • [03:48.27]always men whom they had rescued.
  • [03:51.92]The numbers they have brought back
  • [03:53.68]are the measure of their devotion
  • [03:56.13]and their courage.
  • [03:59.21]The hospital ships,
  • [04:00.17]which brought off many thousands of British
  • [04:01.74]and French wounded
  • [04:03.31]being so plainly marked
  • [04:05.28]were a special target for Nazi bombs;
  • [04:08.82]but the men and women on board them
  • [04:10.89]never faltered in their duty.
  • [04:13.77]Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force,
  • [04:16.60]which had already been intervening in the battle,
  • [04:20.29]so far as its range would allow,
  • [04:22.97]from our home bases,
  • [04:25.66]now used part of its main metropolitan fighter strength
  • [04:30.67]and struck at the German bombers
  • [04:34.94]and at the fighters
  • [04:36.45]which in large numbers protected them.
  • [04:40.25]This struggle was protracted and fierce.
  • [04:43.59]Suddenly the scene has cleared,
  • [04:46.46]the crash and thunder has for the moment
  • [04:50.56]but only for the moment
  • [04:52.32]died away.
  • [04:54.25]A miracle of deliverance
  • [04:57.23]achieved by valor
  • [04:58.69]by perseverance
  • [05:00.46]by perfect discipline,
  • [05:02.29]by faultless service,
  • [05:04.42]by resource
  • [05:05.93]by skill,
  • [05:06.44]by unconquerable fidelity,
  • [05:09.88]is manifest to us all.
  • [05:12.76]The enemy was hurled back
  • [05:16.45]by the retreating British troops.
  • [05:19.38]He was so roughly handled
  • [05:21.78]that he did not hurry their departure seriously.
  • [05:26.89]Sir,We must be very careful
  • [05:29.10]not to assign to this deliverance
  • [05:32.48]the attributes of a victory.
  • [05:35.46]Wars are not won by evacuations.
  • [05:39.37]But there was a victory inside this deliverance
  • [05:42.66]which should be noted.
  • [05:44.42]It was gained by the air force.
  • [05:47.46]Many of our soldiers coming back
  • [05:50.09]have not seen the air force at work;
  • [05:52.87]they saw only the bombers
  • [05:54.74]which escaped its protective attack.
  • [05:57.48]They underrate its achievements.
  • [06:00.00]I have heard much talk of this;
  • [06:02.78]that is why I go out of my way to say this.
  • [06:07.49]I will tell you about it.
  • [06:09.51]This was a great trial of strength
  • [06:11.62]between the British and German air forces.
  • [06:15.01]Can you conceive a greater objective
  • [06:19.41]for the Germans in the air
  • [06:21.68]than to make evacuation from these beaches impossible
  • [06:25.68]and to sink all these ships
  • [06:28.10]which were displayed, almost to the extent of thousands
  • [06:32.30]Could there have been an objective
  • [06:34.84]of greater military importance and significance
  • [06:37.84]for the whole purpose of the war than this
  • [06:41.12]They tried hard, and they were beaten back;
  • [06:44.71]they were frustrated in their task.
  • [06:47.85]We got the army away;
  • [06:49.98]and they have paid fourfold
  • [06:52.00]for any losses which they have inflicted.
  • [07:00.02]Sir,when we consider how much greater
  • [07:02.34]would be our advantage
  • [07:03.71]in defending the air above this island
  • [07:05.29]against an overseas attack,
  • [07:08.07]I must say that I find in these facts a sure basis
  • [07:10.82]upon which practical and reassuring thoughts may rest.
  • [07:15.77]I will pay my tribute to these young airmen.
  • [07:19.87]The great French army was very largely,
  • [07:22.96]for the time being,
  • [07:25.70]cast back
  • [07:27.22]and disturbed by the onrush of a few thousands
  • [07:31.42]of armored vehicles.
  • [07:34.15]May it not
  • [07:35.61]also be
  • [07:37.03]that the cause of civilisation itself
  • [07:39.41]will be defended by the skill
  • [07:41.59]and devotion
  • [07:43.88]of a few thousand airmen?
  • [07:46.87]There never has been,
  • [07:48.94]I suppose, in all the world,
  • [07:51.47]in all the history of war,
  • [07:53.49]such an opportunity for youth.
  • [07:55.97]The Knights of the Round Table,
  • [07:57.79]the Crusaders, all fall back into the past
  • [08:02.49]not only distant but prosaic;
  • [08:07.10]these young men, going forth every morn
  • [08:10.34]to guard their native land
  • [08:11.95]and all that we stand for,
  • [08:13.27]holding in their hands
  • [08:15.44]these instruments of colossal and shattering power,
  • [08:19.64]of whom it may be said that
  • [08:21.97]every morn brought forth a noble chance,
  • [08:26.01]And every chance brought forth a noble knight,
  • [08:29.90]deserve our gratitude, as do all the brave men
  • [08:36.47]who, in so many ways and on so many occasions,
  • [08:39.96]are ready, and continue ready
  • [08:42.59]to give life and all for their native land.
  • [08:47.33]Nevertheless,
  • [08:49.55]our thankfulness
  • [08:51.37]at the escape of our army
  • [08:53.34]and so many men,
  • [08:54.60]whose loved ones have passed through
  • [08:56.59]an agonising week,
  • [08:58.92]must not blind us to the fact
  • [09:01.44]that what has happened in France and Belgium
  • [09:04.53]is a colossal military disaster.
  • [09:08.72]The French army has been weakened,
  • [09:10.86]the Belgian army has been lost,
  • [09:13.33]a large part of those fortified lines
  • [09:16.13]upon which so much faith
  • [09:17.39]had been reposed is gone,
  • [09:20.23]many valuable mining districts and factories
  • [09:23.17]have passed into the enemy's possession,
  • [09:26.15]the whole of the Channel ports are in his hands,
  • [09:30.10]with all the tragic consequences that follow from that,
  • [09:33.90]and we must expect another blow to be struck
  • [09:36.95]almost immediately at us or at France.
  • [09:41.69]We are told that Herr Hitler
  • [09:45.24]has a plan for invading the British Isles.
  • [09:48.48]This has often been thought of before.
  • [09:51.67]When Napoleon lay at Boulogne for a year
  • [09:54.49]with his flat-bottomed boats
  • [09:56.58]and his Grand Army,
  • [09:59.00]he was told by someone,
  • [10:01.43]"There are bitter weeds in England."
  • [10:05.32]There are certainly a great many more of them
  • [10:08.30]since the British Expeditionary Force returned.
  • [10:12.76]I have, myself, full confidence
  • [10:14.68]that if all do their duty,
  • [10:16.75]if nothing is neglected,
  • [10:18.83]and if the best arrangements are made,
  • [10:20.85]as they are being made,
  • [10:23.02]we shall prove ourselves
  • [10:24.64]once more able to defend our island home,
  • [10:28.21]to ride out the storm of war,
  • [10:28.86]and to outlive the menace of tyranny,
  • [10:33.85]if necessary for years,
  • [10:37.57]if necessary alone.
  • [10:41.61]At any rate,
  • [10:42.58]that is what we are going to try to do.
  • [10:44.96]That is the resolve of His Majesty's government
  • [10:47.85]every man of them.
  • [10:49.37]That is the will of parliament and the nation.
  • [10:51.85]The British Empire and the French republic,
  • [10:54.52]linked together in their cause
  • [10:56.75]and in their need,
  • [10:58.80]will defend to the death their native soil,
  • [11:01.37]aiding each other like good comrades
  • [11:04.00]to the utmost to their strength.
  • [11:06.18]We shall go on to the end,
  • [11:08.46]we shall fight in France,
  • [11:10.58]we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
  • [11:13.53]we shall fight with growing confidence
  • [11:17.80]and growing strength in the air,
  • [11:19.48]we shall defend our island,
  • [11:21.97]whatever the cost may be,
  • [11:24.10]we shall fight on the beaches,
  • [11:25.98]we shall fight on the landing grounds,
  • [11:28.47]we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
  • [11:32.66]we shall fight in the hills;
  • [11:34.43]we shall never surrender,
  • [11:36.95]and if, which I do not for a moment believe,
  • [11:40.80]this island or a large part of it
  • [11:44.00]were subjugated and starving,
  • [11:46.62]then our empire beyond the seas,
  • [11:50.32]armed and guarded by the British fleet,
  • [11:53.60]would carry on the struggle,
  • [11:55.82]until, in God's good time,
  • [11:58.47]the new world, with all its power and might,
  • [12:01.90]steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
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