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Prime Minister to Foreign Office 4 Apr. ‘45.
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Attention should be drawn to the mis-spelling “inadmissable.” I have noticed this several times in Foreign Office telegrams.
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邱氏于戎马倥偬，日理万机之余，对于一字之微，也不轻易放过，真可谓心细如发矣。
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Our long months of preparation and planning for the greatest amphibious operation in history ended on D-Day, June 6, 1944. During the preceding night the great armadas of convoys and their escorts sailed, unknown to the enemy, along the swept channels from the Isle of Wight to the Normandy coast. Heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force attacked enemy coast-defence guns in their concrete emplacements, dropping 5200 tons of bombs. When dawn broke, the United States Air Force came on the scene to deal with other shore defences, followed by medium and fighter bombers. In the twenty-four hours of June 6 the Allies flew over 14,600 sorties. So great was our superiority in the air that all the enemy could put up during daylight over the invasion beaches was a mere hundred sorties.
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● long months：很多月以来。long这个字安得很好。preparation and planning：准备和设计。amphibious operation：两栖作战。D-Day：预定发动攻击的那一天。本适用于任何战役，现常专指联军反攻欧陆，登陆诺曼第的那一天。
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● preceding night：六月五日夜里。armada本为西班牙文，等于英文的fleet（舰队）。十六世纪时，西班牙曾发“无敌舰队”（The Invincible Armada）攻英，英人谈虎色变，所以现在这个字在英文里的涵义，声势似乎比fleet更壮。convoys：护航队。escorts：保护那些商船运输舰的兵舰。
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● swept（sweep的过去分词）：障碍物业已肃清的。（“扫雷舰”的英文名称是mine sweeper）。channels：海里可供航行的通道。（此字亦作“海峡”解：The English Channel即英法之间的英伦海峡；但此处应作“the deeper part of a waterway”解。）
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● Isle of Wight：英国南部一小岛。Normandy：法国西北部的半岛。
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● Heavy bombers：重轰炸机。Royal Air Force：皇家空军，即英国空军，简写为RAF。英国的海军是Royal Navy (RN)。英国军舰的前面都加“皇上陛下的舰船”（His or Her Majesty’s Ship），如H. M. S. Hood，即为英舰虎特号。
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● coast-defence guns：海岸防御大炮（defence是英国拼法，美国通常作defense）。
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● concrete：混凝土（水泥、沙石等）砌成的。emplacements：炮兵阵地。
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● When dawn broke：天亮的时候（天亮是daybreak，入暮是nightfall，注意两个动词break和fall的用法）。第二次大战后期，英国空军担任夜间轰炸任务，美国空军白天轰炸。
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● medium bombers：中型轰炸机。fighter bomber：战斗轰炸机两用飞机，较中型轰炸机为小。重轰炸机先来，继之（followed by）以中型与战斗轰炸机。
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● over 14,600 sorties：超过一万四千六百“架次”。一架飞机出动一次，称为“架次”（sortie），此字源自法文sortir，有“出动”之意。一架飞机出动两次或两架飞机出动一次，都是“two sorties”。
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● superiority in the air：空中优势。“so great…”连后面的“that”。all the enemy could put up=all that the enemy could put up：敌方所能发动者。over the invasion beaches：用之于登陆作战的海滩上空者。invasion是“侵入”，与aggression（侵略）不同。侵略是坏事，侵入只指行动的方向，不问行动的是非。德国攻入法国是invasion，联军攻入欧陆也是。
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From midnight three airborne divisions were alighting, the British 6th Airborne Division northeast of Caen to seize bridgeheads over the river between the town and the sea, and two American airborne divisions north of Carentan to assist the seaborne assault on the beaches, and to check the movement of enemy reserves into the Contentin peninsula. Although in places the airborne divisions were more widely scattered than had been intended, the object was in every case achieved.
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● airborne division：空运师。borne是bear（载运）的过去分词。alighting：着陆。人下车或鸟栖止都可以用这个字。此处用过去进行式，有“不断地降落”之意。
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● Caen：法国地名。bridgeheads：桥头堡。over the river：这条河大约是指River Ordon。英国登陆地点是在Caen城的北边，初步目标是占领Caen城；Caen和海岸之间，有河阻隔，故先用空运部队，在河对岸占领桥头堡，直接威胁Caen，并和海岸登陆大军相呼应。
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● two American airborne divisions：该两师的番号是第82和第101两空运师。Carentan也是诺曼第半岛上的一个城市。seaborne：请参看前面airborne的注。
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● check：阻止，抑制。enemy reserves：敌方后备部队。the Contentin peninsula：诺曼第半岛上一块凸出的小半岛。敌方后备部队如开入该处，可影响美军的成败。
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● in places：中国学生喜欢用in some places或in many places，但有时候只说in places就够了。
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● more widely scattered than had been intended：较原定计划散布为广，不能如原定计划那样集中降落。than此处用如relative pronoun，做had been intended的主语。in every case：在每点上，各处统统（完成任务）。
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As dawn came and the ships, great and small, began to file into their prearranged positions for the assault, the scene might almost have been a review. Immediate opposition was limited to an attack by torpedo-boats, which sank a Norwegian destroyer. Even when the naval bombardment began, the reply from the coastal batteries was desultory and ineffective. There was no doubt that we had achieved a tactical surprise.
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● file：单行纵列进行；鱼贯而驶。prearranged positions：预定阵地。for the assault：准备攻击。the scene might almost have been a review：这景象几乎像是在军事检阅。队伍整齐，一切按部就班，几乎不像是在作战，但事实上是在作战，故动词用虚拟语气might have been。
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● Immediate opposition：当前的抵抗（仅限于……）。这句用了被动语态，句法很紧凑，如用主动语态，就要松懈得多。
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