Back on the western front, the Germans continue advancing and are in sight of Paris.

回到西线在这个时候，任何人都觉得德军会很快便得到胜利。

The image that often comes to mind is the battle-ravaged landscape along the western front.

人们脑海中经常浮现的画面是西线战场上满目疮痍的景象。

If it had been utilized, however, the Western front would have witnessed a 120 metric tonnes monster.

然而，如果它被使用了，西线战场将会见证一头 120 公吨的怪物。

Let's go back to September 1918. This is when Indian troops who had served on the Western front returned home.

咱们回到1918年9月，也就是曾在西线服役的印度军队回国的时候。

THOUSANDS OF THEM WERE ACTUALLY MAILED TO SOLDIERS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

实际上，其中有数千份邮寄给了西线的士兵。

The late 1820s and 1830s had seen a relative halt in the expansionist  efforts on the western front.

1820 年代后期和 1830 年代，西部战线的扩张主义努力相对停止。

It has been described by one historian as “a tremendous display of humanity”, unplanned and unexpected in many places on the western front.

一位历史学家把这次停战成为“人性的彰显”，西方战线许多战场在没有计划的情况下自发休战。

Though the Russians were losing the war they were still tying down German and Austrian troops who would otherwise fight the allies on the western front.

尽管俄国人输了战争他们仍然起着压制德国和奥地利军队的作用，否则协约国的西方战线将会受到攻打。

Peter Jackson's documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old, give us a rare insight into what is was like to fight in the trenches on the western front.

彼得 · 杰克逊的纪录片《他们不会变老》，给了我们罕见的见解，西部战壕的战斗是什么样的。

During the First World War, all of the men on the islands were drafted and about 400 went on to serve on the western front in Europe where a quarter of them would die.

在第一次世界大战期间，岛上所有的男性都被征召入伍，大约 400 人继续在欧洲西部前线服役，其中四分之一的人会牺牲。

By the time Orwell began his studies at Eton in May 1917, the early enthusiasm for the Great War had waned as a stalemate developed along the Western front and both sides were firmly entrenched.

1917 年 5 月，当奥威尔开始在伊顿公学学习时，早期对一战的热情已经消退，因为西部战线陷入僵局，双方都根深蒂固。

Once the western front was opened in Europe in the summer of 1944 the Nazi war effort began to crumble, as Hitler desperately divided his troops between the three different fronts which were now in existence.

1944 年夏天，欧洲西部战线一打开，纳粹的战争努力就开始崩溃，希特勒拼命地将军队分散到目前存在的三个不同的战线中。

If you go to the cloisters of the war memorial, you see that we left our dead, not just on the western front and Gallipoli, but the Sinai, Palestine, the Boxer Rebellion, you know, all over the world.

如果你去战争纪念馆的回廊，你会看到我们离开了我们的死者， 不仅在西线和加里波利，而且在西奈半岛、巴勒斯坦、义和团运动，你知道，在世界各地。