如果希特勒赢了会怎样？：英语精读讲义

World War II,

第二次世界大战，

the largest and most costly war in all of human history,

这场人类历史上规模最大、代价最惨重的战争，

is still within living memory of some of us around the world. 短語搭配

依然存在于世界上一些人的鲜活记忆中。

And the fallout of this massive conflict is still visible 70 years after the event. 用詞

而这场大规模冲突的余波，在事件过去70年后依然清晰可见。

The aftermath of the war gave rise to a massive displacement and migration of citizens in Europe. 短語搭配

战争的后果导致了欧洲公民的大规模流离失所和人口迁移。

In a modern world where it's difficult to establish just who are the good guys and who are the bad guys,

在当今这个很难界定谁是好人谁是坏人的现代世界里，

the Second World War leaves little in the way of ambiguity. 短語搭配

第二次世界大战几乎没有留下任何含糊其辞的空间。

A madman set to take over the world had to be stopped by a morally responsible world stage. 講解

一个企图接管世界的疯子，必须被具有道德责任感的国际社会制止。

Fortunately,

幸运的是，

Germany was stopped.

德国被阻止了。

But in today's episode of The Infographics Show,

但在今天这期 The Infographics Show 中，

we ask,

我们要问，

"What if Hitler had won World War II?"

“如果希特勒赢了二战会怎样？”

This must be one of the biggest what-ifs in history. 用詞

这绝对是历史上最大的假设之一。

And had Germany not made the double error of first invading the Soviet Union 語法

如果德国没有犯下双重错误——先是入侵苏联，

and then declaring war on the USA,

接着又向美国宣战，

we might have been living in a world where the Nazis had been the victors.

我们现在可能就生活在一个纳粹是胜利者的世界里了。

The citizens of the Soviet Union were the ones who paid the dearest for the Allied victory. 習語

苏联公民为了盟军的胜利付出了最惨痛的代价。

And if it were not for their determination and resistance, 語法

要不是他们的决心和抵抗，

we may well be speaking German and chomping on bratwurst right now.

我们现在可能正在说德语、吃着德国烤肠呢。

But for this to have happened, 語法

但要让这一切发生，

we need to factor in a number of variables 短語動詞

我们需要考虑一些变量，

and reverse engineer a scenario that gives Hitler and Germany a good fighting chance of winning the war. 講解

并反向推演一种能让希特勒和德国有很大胜算的场景。

For Hitler to have declared victory, 語法

为了让希特勒宣布胜利，

he would have had to have gained a lot more land than he had.

他必须获得比当时多得多的土地。

The likelihood of Great Britain and the United States ceding their territory is very slim. 用詞

英国和美国割让领土的可能性微乎其微。

Yet it is possible that some kind of ceasefire would have occurred

然而，达成某种停火协议是可能的，

whereby Germany would have temporary control over the Allied Nations. 用詞

由此德国将暂时控制盟国。

Hitler was by some accounts terrified of the United States becoming part of the Allied Forces. 短語搭配

据一些说法，希特勒非常害怕美国加入盟军。

Having, 語法

因为他们

as they did,

确实拥有

large resources

庞大的资源，

and being as far away as they were.

而且距离又那么遥远。

Capturing land across the oceans would have been unlikely.

跨越汪洋大海占领土地是不太可能的。

Instead,

取而代之的是，

the USA would have had to agree to become passive in the conflict,

美国必须同意在冲突中保持被动，

leaving Germany to have its way with Europe. 習語

任由德国在欧洲为所欲为。

It would have had to have made economic sense for the USA 短語搭配

对美国来说，必须要在经济上划算，

to continue to do deals with a German-led Europe rather than the individual countries. 短語搭配

才能继续与德国领导的欧洲而不是各个独立国家做交易。

Germany would keep the countries it conquered,

德国将保留它征服的国家，

including France and Poland,

包括法国和波兰，

and Italy would continue to be a German ally.

而意大利将继续作为德国的盟友。

Spain and Portugal would find themselves aligned with Germany, 語法

西班牙和葡萄牙会发现自己与德国结盟，

and Switzerland would remain neutral.

瑞士则保持中立。

For Germany to have won the Second World War,

德国要想赢得二战，

they would have had to have given up their ambitions to take the Soviet Union. 短語動詞

就必须放弃拿下苏联的野心。

However,

然而，

Stalin was not going to stay quiet.

斯大林是不会保持沉默的。

So some kind of peace deal would have had to be brokered between the Soviets and Germany 短語搭配

所以如果希特勒要赢得战争，

if Hitler were to win the war.

苏联和德国之间必须达成某种和平协议。

Likewise,

同样地，

Germany would have had to have abandoned its plans to take Japan.

德国也不得不放弃占领日本的计划。

And being so far away,

而且由于距离太远，

there would be no real reason to pursue the East once they'd taken the lion's share of Europe. 習語

一旦他们拿下了欧洲的大头，就没有真正的理由去向东方扩张了。

In short, 表達脈絡

简而言之，

a lot of the bigger players on the world stage would have had to have had a reason 習語

国际舞台上的许多大国必须有一个理由，

to let Germany carry on with its ambitions. 短語動詞

去放任德国继续其野心。

This lack of interference would itself be morally wrong,

这种不干涉本身在道德上就是错误的，

considering the Nazis attempt to exterminate entire sections of the population, 語法

考虑到纳粹企图消灭部分人口群体，

such as Jews and other so-called undesirables like gay people, 用詞

比如犹太人和其他所谓的“不受欢迎的人”，如同性恋者、

the mentally ill, Romani, etc.

精神病患者、罗姆人等。

So if the Germans had won the Second World War 語法

因此，如果德国人赢得了二战，

and were allowed to continue their ethnic cleansing, 用詞

并被允许继续他们的种族清洗，

we would now be living in a world where inside the Greater German Reich,

我们现在就会生活在这样一个世界：在大德意志帝国内，

these people would have been eliminated.

这些人都已被消灭。

American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick

美国科幻小说家菲利普·K·迪克

in 1962 wrote one of the first alternate history novels to look at what would happen. 文化背景

在1962年写下了最早探讨这种可能性的架空历史小说之一。

In his book,

在他的书中，

Nazi Germany, Italy,

纳粹德国、意大利

and Japan have won the war,

和日本赢得了战争，

and the world is divided between them in blocks.

世界被他们划分成了不同的阵营。

The Empire of Japan includes all of Greater East Asia

大日本帝国囊括了整个大东亚，

with the United States divided between the Japanese puppet Pacific States of America

而美国被分为日本的傀儡国“美利坚太平洋国”

and the Rocky Mountain States,

和“落基山脉国”——

a Nazi puppet state of the USA. 文化背景

美国的纳粹傀儡国。

Canada avoids occupation in this scenario

在这个情境中，加拿大免遭占领，

despite being part of the British Empire and being at war with the Nazis from the start. 語法

尽管它是大英帝国的一部分，并且从一开始就与纳粹交战。

With the USA having obtained nuclear capability by 1945, 語法

既然美国在1945年就已获得了核能力，

Nazi Germany would have been desperate to find their own weapons of mass destruction. 文化背景

纳粹德国必然会拼命寻找属于自己的大规模杀伤性武器。

Nazism may have been discovered by its own people to be inherently evil

纳粹主义可能会被其本国人民发现具有内在的邪恶本质，

and be overthrown from within. 短語搭配

从而被从内部推翻。

The truth is, 表達脈絡

事实是，

we will never know just how the world would have panned out, 短語動詞

我们永远不知道世界到底会如何发展，

as there are simply too many variables to take into consideration. 短語搭配

因为需要考虑的变数实在太多了。

It is safe to say that the victory would probably be short-lived, 表達脈絡

可以肯定地说，这种胜利可能是短暂的，

as the Allies decided once again that the right thing to do 短語搭配

因为盟军会再次决定，正确的做法

would have been to remove Hitler from the world stage once and for all. 習語

应该是将希特勒彻底赶出国际舞台。

So,

那么，

what do you think would have happened if Hitler and Germany won the Second World War?

你认为如果希特勒和德国赢了二战会发生什么？

Let us know in the comments.

请在评论区告诉我们。

Also,

此外，

be sure to watch our other video called the top 10 dumbest reasons

一定要去看看我们的另一个视频，名为“十大最愚蠢的理由”——

people were arrested and thrown in jail.

关于人们被捕入狱的。

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感谢观看。

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