As one early BBC boss put it: " I didn't really care what was happening in Abyssinia."

“我根本不在乎阿比西尼亚发生了什么。”

Japan ran amok in Manchuria,   and Italy invaded Abyssinia.

日本在满洲横行，意大利入侵阿比西尼亚。

In October 1935 Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, ordered the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, modern-day Ethiopia.

1935 年 10 月，意大利法西斯领导人贝尼托·墨索里尼下令入侵阿比西尼亚（今埃塞俄比亚）。

Now, if I showed off before these Queens of Persia and Egypt and Abyssinia and China, merely because they worry me, I might be made even more ashamed than I have been'.

现在，如果我在这些波斯、埃及、阿比西尼亚和中国的女王面前炫耀，仅仅因为他们让我担心，我可能会比以前更加羞愧。”