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Segment 29a: Introduction
29段第一部分：介紹
This lecture begins in a state of malaise, which can be defined as a vague sense of physical, mental or moral ill health
我們這節課開始要講的是一種低迷狀態，可大概定義為身體精神或者道德上的不健康狀態
The United States has effort to prop up its South Vietnamese client state was hideously expensive. In both resources and human lives
美國為支持越南附屬國付出了特別慘重的代價。物資上和人力上都是
In the end, it achieved nothing
到最后卻什么都沒有得到
It was the United States' first experience with flat-out losing a war
這是美國第一次體會戰敗
The US, however, would emerge from this sad state
美國最后從這樣的狀態下走出來
The Soviet Union would not
蘇聯卻沒有
Segment 29b: The age of malaise traces America's disastrous escalation of the Vietnam War
29段第二部分：低迷時代可以追溯到美國災難性地擴大越南戰爭
The first war covered on television network news, the Vietnam War also spawned an anti-war movement, which fought the US government every step of the way
越戰是電視報道的第一次戰爭，它也引發了反戰運動，在之后的每一步中都和政府作對
President Nixon eventually ended the Vietnam War through "Vietnamization," which supposedly handed the conduct of the war over the South Vietnam
尼克松總統最終通過“戰爭越南化”結束了越南戰爭，“戰爭越南化”理論上是講戰爭交還給越南共和國
In fact, South Vietnam was left to its inevitable fate
實際上，越南共和國最后還是不可避免地失敗
The sense of malaise brought on by losing Vietnam was amplified by other developments: Watergate, the oil crisis and the Iran hostage crisis
由越南戰爭戰敗帶來的低迷感，后來又因為別的事件進一步加強：水門事件、石油危機和伊朗人質危機
Meanwhile the Soviet celebrated the end of the 1970s with an equally idiotic decision to invade Afghanistan
與此同時，蘇聯在70年代末做出了同樣愚蠢的決定——入侵阿富汗
