《英语博文书系：人物影响100（军事政治篇 英汉对照）》：
When my parents arrived back at Herrlingen again after the long car journey, they found a telephone message awaiting them to the effect
that two Generals were coming the next day to talk to my father about his "future employment".
My battery, to which I had returned several weeks before, had given me leave for the 14th October [1944l. I left the gun position very early in the
morning and arrived at Herrlingen at 7.00 a.m.. My father was already at breakfast. A cup was quickly brought for me and we ate together, afterwards taking a stroll in the garden."At twelve o' clock today two generals are coming to see me to discuss my future employment.," my father started the conversation. "So today will decide what is planned for me, whether a People' s Court or a new command in the East."
"Would you accept such a command?" I asked.He took me by the arm, and replied: "My dear boy, our enemy in the East is so terrible that every other consideration has to give wayi before it. If he succeeds in overrunning Europe, even only temporarily, it will be the end of everything wluch has made life worth living. Of course I would go."
Shortly before twelve o' clock, my father went to his room on the first floor and changed from the brown civilian jacket which he usually wore over riding breeches, to his Africa tunic3, which was his favorite uniform on account of its open collar.
At about twelve o' clock a dark-green car with a Berlin number stopped in front of our garden gate.The only man in the house apart from my father was Captain Aldinger, a badly wounded war-veteran corporal4 and myself. Two generals Burgdorf, a powerful florid man, and Maisel,small and slender alighted5 from the car and entered the house. They were respectful and courteous and asked my father' s permission to speak to him alone. Aldinger and I left
the room. "So they are not going to arrest him." I thought with relief, as I went upstairs to find myself a book.A few minutes later I heard my father come upstairs and go into my mother's room. Anxious to know what was afoot6,I got up and followed. "Outside with me", he said in a tight voice. We went into my room. "I have just had to tell your mother," he began slowly, "that I shall be dead in a quarter of an hour." He was calm as he continued, "to die by the hand of one's own people is hard. But the house is surrounded and Hitler is charging me with high treasod. "In view of my services in Africa," he quoted sarcastically, "I am to have the chance of dying by poison. The two generals have brought it with them. It' s fatal in three seconds. If I accept, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family that is against you. They will also leave my staff alone."
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——丘吉尔
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