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The First World War did not make the whole world safe for democracy.
一戰(zhàn)并沒(méi)有讓世界對(duì)民主而言變得安全
Some former subject nations did indeed get independence.
一些之前的附屬國(guó)的確獲得了獨(dú)立
Plucky Poland, my homeland, lasting being partitioned by Russia, Germany and Austria during the 18th century
勇敢的波蘭，我的祖國(guó)，曾在18世紀(jì)遭到俄國(guó)，德國(guó)和奧地利瓜分
was reassembled as a buffer state, separating Germany from the Soviet Union.
重組成為了緩沖國(guó)，將德國(guó)和蘇聯(lián)分隔開(kāi)來(lái)
But national self-determination was not automatically granted to everyone.
但是并不是所有人都自動(dòng)獲得了民族自決
Nations of the non-white European colonies were notably out of luck.
非白人歐洲殖民地國(guó)家尤其沒(méi)有好運(yùn)
While Wilson was at Versailles for the treaty negotiations, a young Vietnamese named Nguyen Ai Quok wrote to request a meeting with him.
威爾遜在凡爾賽進(jìn)行條約談判的時(shí)候，一個(gè)名為阮愛(ài)國(guó)的越南年輕人寫(xiě)信請(qǐng)求和他見(jiàn)面
Nguyen wanted a chance to persuade Wilson that French Indochina deserved independence under the framework of the 14 powers,
阮希望能有機(jī)會(huì)說(shuō)服威爾遜在十四點(diǎn)和平原則框架下，法屬印度支那應(yīng)當(dāng)獲得獨(dú)立
just as much as Poland and Belgium did for example.
就和波蘭，比利時(shí)那樣
The meeting never took place.
但是他并沒(méi)有得到會(huì)面的機(jī)會(huì)
Nguyen Ai Quok eventually rose to power in the Vietnamese Communist Party under the name Ho Chi Minh.
后來(lái)，阮愛(ài)國(guó)改名胡志明，在越南共產(chǎn)黨里獲得了權(quán)力
Despite Wilson's calls for more reasonable peace-terms, the Versailles Treaty's severe economic punishment upon Germany,
盡管威爾遜號(hào)召采用更合理的和平條款，《凡爾賽條約》對(duì)于德國(guó)的嚴(yán)重經(jīng)濟(jì)懲罰
led directly to the rise of Hitler's Third Reich and thus to World War II in Europe.
后來(lái)直接導(dǎo)致了希特勒第三帝國(guó)的崛起，也因而引起了歐洲二戰(zhàn)的爆發(fā)
