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The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw · 初版 1998 年
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“1984年春天，我前往法国西北部的诺曼底，为 NBC 制作一部关于 D-Day 四十周年的纪录片。正是那场盟军对欧洲发起的浩大而大胆的进攻，开启了 Adolf Hitler 第三帝国走向覆灭的序幕。在那里，我经历了一次改变人生的体验。当我与重返此地参加纪念活动的美国退伍老兵（一群六七十岁的老人）一同漫步在海滩上，倾听他们的故事时，我被他们所做的一切深深打动并心怀无尽感激。十年后，我再次回到诺曼底参加五十周年纪念
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……没错，这只是我的个人经历——样本量只有一，在统计学上毫无意义。在我看来，更好的切入点是美国记者 Tom Brokaw 考证详实的力作《The Greatest Generation》。它讲述了“一代美国平民英雄的故事，他们在大萧条和二战期间长大成人，并继续建设了现代美国”，正如 Brokaw 指出的……
…Right, that's just me—a sample of one—and that's statistically insignificant. It seems to me that a better place to begin is with the American journalist Tom Brokaw's wonderfully researched book The Greatest Generation. It tells the stories 'of a generation of America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America' As Brokaw points…
……从大局来看根本算不上什么。如果你想找一位对此做过深入调研、更具权威的人士，那我推荐你看 Tom Brokaw 以及他关于该主题的杰作《The Greatest Generation》：https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(boo... https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/128...
…counts for little in the wider scheme of things. If you want a greater authority who has carefully researched the matter then I'd refer you to Tom Brokaw and his excellent book on the subject titled The Greatest Generation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(boo... https://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/128...
“我琢磨着”大概不会，否则事情会更艰难，耗时也更久。Tom Brokaw 那本极为出色的《The Greatest Generation》正是那一代人的缩影。他记录了那代人的生活，展现了他们如何顺应命运，在逆境来临时拼尽全力渡过难关，而且从不抱怨。我挺感兴趣的是……
"I ponder" Probably not, or it would have been more difficult or taken longer. That generation is exemplified in Tom Brokaw's truly excellent book The Greatest Generation. He covers the lives of people of that generation and shows how they took life as it came and when adversity struck they managed the best they could and did so without complaint. I have an interest in…
其实，这恰恰让它更站得住脚。反驳 Tom Brokaw 的《Greatest Generation》的核心论点并不是说那些二战英雄有多特别，而是没有任何一代人能担得起这种特殊性。我本来可以用更精确的修饰语，比如“纯因出身巧合”，但那样表达太臃肿了。……
Actually, that's what makes it better. The argument against Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation isn't that those WWII heroes were so special; it's that no one generation could be. I could have been more precise with a modifying phrase such as "by accident of birth", but that was too unwieldy.…