| French President Nicolas Sarkozy stumbled in a speech Wednesday, saying he was "in Germany" while delivering an address in Alsace, the border region that France won from the Nazis in WWII, Bloomberg reports. Sarkozy quickly corrected himself and the crowd laughed and then booed. |
據(jù)彭博新聞社電，法國(guó)總統(tǒng)薩科齊日前在靠近德國(guó)邊境的阿爾薩斯發(fā)表講話時(shí)出現(xiàn)口誤，說自己身在“德國(guó)”。薩科齊迅速更正了自己，不過聽眾發(fā)出了笑聲，隨后開始起哄。阿爾薩斯是法國(guó)二戰(zhàn)后從納粹德國(guó)手中奪回的領(lǐng)土。 |
| French kings annexed Alsace in the 17th century, though most inhabitants continued to speak a German dialect. Germany took Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. France won it back in WWI. Germany formally annexed it after overrunning France in 1940 before French and US troops liberated most of the border region in late 1944. |
17世紀(jì)時(shí)，法蘭西國(guó)王宣布阿爾薩斯為法國(guó)領(lǐng)土，不過當(dāng)?shù)卮蠖嗑用裰笕匀徽f德語。1870年，普魯士贏得普法戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，阿爾薩斯繼而劃歸德國(guó)。一戰(zhàn)德國(guó)戰(zhàn)敗，法國(guó)收回阿爾薩斯，但1940年德國(guó)再次搶奪。直到1944年冬法美聯(lián)軍擊敗德國(guó)，阿爾薩斯才一直歸于法國(guó)版圖。
（China.org.cn） |
