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The western powers' conduct didn't exactly inspire soviet confidence.
西方列強的行為并沒有鼓起蘇聯(lián)的信心
The United States was too busy fighting the Great Depression to take off its isolationist blinkers.
美國忙于應(yīng)付大蕭條，無法脫去孤立主義的有色眼鏡
In September 1938, Britain and France allowed Hitler to annex most of Czechoslovakia.
1938年9月，英法同意希特勒吞并大部分捷克斯洛伐克領(lǐng)土
This was done through the Munich pact, and in March 1939 they stood idly by while Hitler grabbed the rest.
這是通過1939年3月簽訂的《慕尼黑協(xié)定》實現(xiàn)的，他們對希特勒攫取剩余的領(lǐng)土視若無睹
The British and French attempt to reach an anti-fascist pact with the Soviet Union was a farce.
英法試圖和蘇聯(lián)結(jié)成反法西斯同盟，這就有如一個鬧劇一樣
Their delegation led by Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax
由上將雷金納德·普倫基特率領(lǐng)的代表團
took literally weeks to arrive in Leningrad by steamboat and they were greeted with a very chilly reception.
坐了幾周的汽船來到了列寧格勒，然而他們卻遭到了冷遇
While the good Admiral Plunkett Ernle-Erle-Drax and his delegation were being taken back to their steamboat,
在上將和他的代表團被送回汽船上時
a plane from Berlin was landing at the Moscow airport.
一架來自柏林的飛機降落在了莫斯科機場
It carried the German foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
來者則是德國外長約阿希姆·馮·里賓特洛甫
On August 24, 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union shocked the world
1939年8月24日，德國和蘇聯(lián)簽署了《莫洛托夫—里賓特洛甫條約》
by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after the two foreign ministers who negotiated.
該條約以談判的兩位外長命名，這讓世人大跌眼鏡
In a way, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact made sense.
從某種程度上來說，該條約也說得通
