In summertime he joined his friends in fishing in the local ponds, flying kites (many years later, local residents would recall that when on windless days many of his friends quickly grew discouraged, Cung would still try to keep his kite in the air), and climbing the many hills in the vicinity. The most memorable was Mount Chung, on the summit of which sat the temple of Nguyen Duc Du, a general of the thirteenth century who had fought against an invading Mongol army. It was here, too, where the patriotic scholar Vuong Thuc Mau, at whose doorstep Sac had first discovered his love of learning years before, had formed a band of rebels in 1885 to fight under the banner of the Can Vuong movement. From the heights of Mount Chung, climbers had a breathtaking view of rice fields, stands of bamboo... (查看原文)
After stops in Singapore, Colombo, and Port Said, the Amiral Latouche Tréville docked in Marseilles harbor on July 6, 1911. Here Thanh received his wages - about ten francs, a sum barely adequate to feed and house him in a cheap hotel for a few days - and disembarked with a friend to get his first glimpse of France. For the first time, he saw electric trams ("running bouses," as the Vietnamese then called them). For the first time, too, he was addressed as "monsieur" when he stopped at a café on the city's famous Rue Cannebière for a cup of coffee. The experience inspired him to remark to his friend: "The French in France are better and more polite than those in Indochina." At the same time, he discovered that there was poverty in France, just as there was in French Indochina. Then, as now... (查看原文)
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6 有用 shlomo 2022-07-11 23:21:47
原著就是一本平庸的流水账，这个翻译更是差得离谱，不堪卒读。基本上就是机翻后调整下语言，所有的专门名词和概念都是胡乱翻译的，甚至前后也不一致。随便举个例子，major general竟然翻译成少校将军，真是笑尿了。
3 有用 晓木曰兮历史系 2022-11-29 18:45:03 山西
這麼好的題材，寫的亂七八糟，翻譯的也是一塌糊塗
0 有用 白象似的群山 2024-07-17 00:42:00 山东
没有missing years那本好。那本用的资料实在是太多了，除越南文外，英法俄占据大头。