【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 19

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C – Christopher Tietjens

Mac – Vincent Macmaster

E – Edith Duchemin

Mac: Oh, Chrissie, thank God you're here!

C: Your telegram bounced, I was in Yorkshire, seeing Michael. What's happened?

Mac: Edith will explain on the train. I won't forget today in a hurry.

C: None of us will. Haven't you heard? We're at war with Germany.

E: Oh... Oh...

--: The French are saying that we're not pulling our weight. The Prime Minister wishes to show that, when measured against respective populations of single men of fighting age and suchlike, that our contribution compares very favourably¹ with the French.

C: Does it? This document lumps together 72 battalions² of Kitchener's volunteers who aren't even on the Western Front, because they're still in training without half their kit³.

--: That's a million men under arms committed to the fight!

C: This is all about who's in control of strategy, I suppose.

--: Our masters take the view the Western Front must be under dual⁴ command, not, repeat not,

under a single command, which would mean French command, obviously.