《西线无战事》孩子们,去参军吧!
节选自影片《西线无战事》(All Quiet On The Western Front)最开头教授的战争鼓吹。第一次世界大站即将爆发,德国某个中学,窗外是即将开赴前线的雄赳赳进军的士兵,教室里是极力鼓动孩子们去充当炮灰的慷慨激昂作着演讲的教授。
Now, my beloved class, this is what we must do: Strike with all our power. Give every ounce of strength to win victory before the end of the year. It is reluctance that I bring this subject up again. You are the life of the fatherland, you boys. You are the iron men of Germany. You are the heroes who will repulse the enemy when you are called upon to do so ……
Perhaps some will say that you should not be allowed to go yet, that you are too youg, that you have homes, mothers, fathers, that you should not be torn away.
Are your father so forgetful of their fatherland that they would let it perish rather than you? Are your mother so weak that they cannot send a son to defend the land which gave them birth? And after all, is a little experience such a bad thing for a boy? Is the honor of wearing a uniform something from which we should run?