谢谢闲云家鹤分享丘吉尔的名言。

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回答: so much owed by so many to so few 由闲云家鹤于 2014-08-24 19:21:36

Never was so much owed by so many to so few by Winston Churchill (ZT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0t-RqjMH-A

Hi，闲云家鹤，

谢谢你分享丘吉尔的名言:"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. "
我刚去网上查询了相关的介绍和翻译，才知道这是丘吉尔在二战时演讲中的一句，是对英国皇家空军（RAF）战斗机飞行员的奉献给予的评价：“在人类战争的领域里，从来没有过这么少的人对这么多的人作出过这么大的贡献。”

摘录BBC的报道说：在英国军队1940年6月从敦刻尔克（Dunkirk）大撤离之后，希特勒将目光聚焦在英国。当时，和英国皇家空军相比，德国空军（Luftwaffe）具有非常显著的优势——750架远程战略轰炸机和250架俯冲轰炸机、600架单引擎飞机及150架双引擎飞机。与此同时，英国皇家空军战斗机司令部只拥有区区600架飞机。

不列颠空战于1940年7月10日正式打响，10月31日结束。尽管德国空军在武装力量上占有明显优势，然而还是被英国皇家空军的英勇击退。据统计，超过2,900名英国和英联邦以及盟军战员参与了战斗，飞行员的平均年龄仅有22岁。其中三分之一的飞行员在战役中丧生或受伤。

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukchina/simp/uk_life/2010/08/100820_life_churchill_britain_battle.shtml

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下面是丘吉尔演讲原文节选，供你参考：

Never was so much owed by so many to so few by Winston Churchill (ZT)

The great air battle which has been in progress over this Island for the last few weeks has recently attained a high intensity. It is too soon to attempt to assign limits either to its scale or to its duration. We must certainly expect that greater efforts will be made by the enemy than any he has so far put forth.…

It is quite plain that Herr Hitler could not admit defeat in his air attack on Great Britain without sustaining most serious injury. If after all his boastings and bloodcurdling threats and lurid accounts trumpeted round the world of the damage he has inflicted, of the vast numbers of our Air Force he has shot down, so he says, with so little loss to himself …

if after all this his whole air onslaught were forced after a while tamely to peter out, the Fuhrer's reputation for veracity of statement might be seriously impugned. We may be sure, therefore, that he will continue as long as he has the strength to do so…

It must also be remembered that all the enemy machines and pilots which are shot down over our Island, or over the seas which surround it, are either destroyed or captured; whereas a considerable proportion of our machines, and also of our pilots, are saved, and soon again in many cases come into action.…

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few