诺曼底

JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke ofNormandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops,bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs,stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects,Greeting.

约翰，上帝给我们的恩赐，英格兰的王，爱尔兰的领主，诺曼底和阿奎潭的丢克，Anjou的考特，向他的大主教，主教，修道院院长，厄尔，巴仁，法官，森林守护官，郡长，管家，办事员，及所有的公职人员和忠实的仆人，问候。

A brandy distilled from apple cider, produced only in the french region of normandy .

法国诺曼底地区出产由苹果酒蒸馏得来的。。。

Dry apple brandy made in Normandy.

诺曼底制造的干的苹果白兰地。

If they never been the places like Normandi Bastogne or Haguenau...

如果他们从未身处于诺曼底、巴斯通或哈根努。

The Bayeux Tapestry is the best documentation of armour and arms used at that time.

这个是讲11世纪法国诺曼底人征服英国的武器，其中讲到他们的头盔是用铁或青铜制造的。

Allied fighter pilots owned the skies over Normandy. On June 15, Eisenhower crossed the Channel by plane to visit Bayeux.

盟军战斗机飞行员掌握了诺曼底天空。6月15日，艾森豪威尔乘飞机越过英吉利海峡，访问了巴约市。

On 6 June 1944 – better known as D-Day – some 45,000 Allied troops landed on beaches near Bayeux, heralding the beginning of the Battle of Normandy (p298), the decisive campaign that led to the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe.

在1944 年6月6 日，45，000多名联盟军在Bayeux附近的海滩登陆，揭开了诺曼底战争的序幕(p298)，这个日子就是后来为人们所熟知的D-Day。这次决定性的战役导致了欧洲的解放，德国纳粹曾让那里的人们饱受折磨。

Actual birthplace unknown (not Blois as sometimes indicated, which was a red herring later made up by Lupin). Perhaps Andresy, a small town located in the Yvelines, near the river Seine, half-way between Paris and Normandy?

准确出生地不详（肯定不是BLOIS，那是罗宾为了迷惑别人而编造的地方），可能是ANDRESY，位于YVELINES的一个小镇，靠近塞纳河，在巴黎和诺曼底之间。

My own impression of the war was limited to snapshot memories－1940 summer picnics around the wreckage of a Heinkel bomber in the local Bluebell Woods;the infernal organ note of the V-1 flying bombs passing overhead;convoys of drab army trucks rumbling past our country gate;counting the gaps in the American bomber squadrons straggling back each day from Germany;waving to the troopships sailing in June 1944 from Southsea beach to Normandy;and of course,VE-day itself,with the bonfires and beating of the family gong.

我自己对于战争的印象仅限于几个片断：1940年夏天在当地的风铃草森林围着一架海因克尔轰炸机残骸进行的一次野餐；V1飞弹（V-1 flying bombs）自头顶掠过那恐怖的噪音；土褐色的卡车在护送队的伴随下驶入我国国门的隆隆声；每天列出的美国轰炸机中队到达德国的距离数字；1944年6月在运兵船上从南海海滩到诺曼底的航行；还有，当然，那伴随家家户户的锣鼓声和巨大的篝火到来的欧战胜利纪念日。

Painted on Monet's honeymoon, this canvas depicts his wife and Madame Boudin at Trouville, on the Normandy coast.

在莫奈的蜜月彩，这画布描绘Trouville他的妻子和夫人布丁，在诺曼底海岸。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失