Y·pres
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- a town in Belgium near which three separate battles (1914, 1915 and 1917) were fought in the First World War. In the first, the British Expeditionary Force suffered terrible losses, the second involved the first use of poisonous gas as a weapon by the Germans, and the third resulted in the deaths of over half a million men.
伊普尔（Ypres）：比利时的一个城镇，在第一次世界大战中曾在附近进行了三场单独的战斗（1914、1915和1917年）。第一，英国远征军遭受了惨重的损失，第二，德国人第一次使用有毒气体作为武器，第三次导致超过五十万人丧生。