| 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. |
據彭博新聞社電，法國總統薩科齊日前在靠近德國邊境的阿爾薩斯發表講話時出現口誤，說自己身在“德國”。薩科齊迅速更正了自己，不過聽眾發出了笑聲，隨后開始起哄。阿爾薩斯是法國二戰后從納粹德國手中奪回的領土。 |
| 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世紀時，法蘭西國王宣布阿爾薩斯為法國領土，不過當地大多居民之后仍然說德語。1870年，普魯士贏得普法戰爭，阿爾薩斯繼而劃歸德國。一戰德國戰敗，法國收回阿爾薩斯，但1940年德國再次搶奪。直到1944年冬法美聯軍擊敗德國，阿爾薩斯才一直歸于法國版圖。
（China.org.cn） |
