Mr.Brown has just returned from a whistle-stop tour of France, the United States and South America to drum up support for unified economic action.

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This is what we do in the South of France with a little chardonnay on the side.

我们在法国南部玩掷球游戏的时候,手边都会放一杯夏敦埃酒

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Or, if you go to Nimes in the south of France, you'll see boulevards that people race motorcycles around all the time and they keep you up all night.

或者去法国南部的尼姆,你会看到身边的林荫大道,总有人在进行摩托车比赛,让你整晚都不能入睡

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Workers obviously didn't want a monarchy; but, in many areas of France,particularly in the south, lots of peasants did want a republic, and France becomes a republic.

工人们显然不想要君主制,而在法国许多地方,尤其是南方,很多农民确实支持共和,于是法兰西成为了共和国

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But if you think of Spain, if you are hitchhiking through Spain or something like that, or through the south of France, or Eurail passes, and if you go to a town like Avila in Spain.

如果你考虑驾车去西班牙旅行什么的,或者是穿过法国南部,又或者一张铁路通票游遍欧洲,如果你去西班牙阿维拉那样的地方

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I'll tell you, in the south of France near where we live, when there was a lot of resistance in World War II against the Germans, there were some Protestant villages there that were noteworthy for their resistance.

例如在法国南部,当时我们住所的附近,有一些新教徒的村子,这些村民们在二战中奋力抗击德国的入侵,并因为他们的不屈抗争而闻名

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