謝謝閑雲家鶴分享丘吉爾的名言。

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回答: so much owed by so many to so few 由閑雲家鶴於 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，閑雲家鶴，

謝謝你分享丘吉爾的名言:"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. "
我剛去網上查詢了相關的介紹和翻譯，才知道這是丘吉爾在二戰時演講中的一句，是對英國皇家空軍（RAF）戰鬥機飛行員的奉獻給予的評價：“在人類戰爭的領域裏，從來沒有過這麽少的人對這麽多的人作出過這麽大的貢獻。”

摘錄BBC的報道說：在英國軍隊1940年6月從敦刻爾克（Dunkirk）大撤離之後，希特勒將目光聚焦在英國。當時，和英國皇家空軍相比，德國空軍（Luftwaffe）具有非常顯著的優勢——750架遠程戰略轟炸機和250架俯衝轟炸機、600架單引擎飛機及150架雙引擎飛機。與此同時，英國皇家空軍戰鬥機司令部隻擁有區區600架飛機。

不列顛空戰於1940年7月10日正式打響，10月31日結束。盡管德國空軍在武裝力量上占有明顯優勢，然而還是被英國皇家空軍的英勇擊退。據統計，超過2,900名英國和英聯邦以及盟軍戰員參與了戰鬥，飛行員的平均年齡僅有22歲。其中三分之一的飛行員在戰役中喪生或受傷。

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

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下麵是丘吉爾演講原文節選，供你參考：

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