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In 1947, the United Nations divided Great Britain's Palestine mandate into separate Jewish and Arab portions with yet another set of arbitrary boundaries.
1947年，聯合國將英國的巴勒斯坦托管地劃分給了猶太和阿拉伯人，這又是一個隨意劃分的邊界
The Jewish portionin 1948 became the republic of Israel, while the Palestinian portion sank into a political limbo, where it remains to this day.
猶太領土在1948年成為了以色列共和國，巴勒斯坦則陷入政治不安定狀態，直到今天仍然如此
For economic reasons, the French hoped to reclaim their empire.
出于經濟原因，法國人希望恢復他們的帝國
It would also help salvage their national pride.
這也將幫助挽回他們的國家自豪感
They were driven from Palestine by nationalist forces in 1946, They managed to hold on to Algeria, in northern Africa, until 1962.
1946年他們被民族力量逐出了巴勒斯坦，但是設法保住了北非的阿爾及利亞，直到1962年
Although France's Central African colonies have long since been independent,
盡管法國的中非殖民地已經獨立很久
France still maintains an "economic sphere of influence" to this day in countries like Chad.
法國至今仍在乍得之類的國家保持著經濟影響力
Most important for our purpose is the fall of France's empire in Southeast Asia, or Indochina.
最重要的是法帝國在東南亞或印度支那的衰落
Conquered in the middle 1800s and ruled by French viceroys, French Indochina was captured by Japan during the Second World War.
法屬印度支那在19世紀中期被法國占領并受法國總督統治，二戰中又被日本占領
The main obstacle to French control was the Viet Minh movement, founded in 1930 by the French-educated Communist Ho Chi Minh,
法國意圖控制印度支那碰到的最主要障礙就是1930年由接受法語教育的共產黨胡志明發起的越盟運動
last seen trying to get an interview with Woodrow Wilson.
胡志明上一次露面還是嘗試和伍德羅·威爾遜進行會面的時候
