Flanders is a low, flat region in western Europe. Today it covers much of northern Belgium, where many people speak Dutch, and it also reaches into the southern Netherlands and northern France.

Flanders is a low, flat region in western EuropeFlanders（法蘭德斯）是西歐一塊低平的地區。 Today it covers much of northern Belgium現在它涵蓋了比利時北部大部分地方， where many people speak Dutch那裡很多人講荷蘭語， and it also reaches into the southern Netherlands and northern France也延伸到荷蘭南部和法國北部。

History books, especially about World War I, use the name a lot: many terrible battles were fought in the mud there, and poems still speak of Flanders fields. It is a place name, so we write it with a capital F.

History books, especially about World War I, use the name a lot歷史書，尤其是講第一次世界大戰的，很常用到這個名字： many terrible battles were fought in the mud there好幾場慘烈的戰役都在那裡的泥地裡打過， and poems still speak of Flanders fields詩裡至今還在講Flanders fields（法蘭德斯的原野）。 It is a place name, so we write it with a capital F這是個地名，所以F要大寫。

It is not a country of its own today. People from Flanders are Flemish; a man from there can be called a Fleming.

It is not a country of its own today它現在不是一個獨立的國家。 People from Flanders are Flemish來自Flanders的人叫Flemish（法蘭德斯人）； a man from there can be called a Fleming那裡的男性也可以叫a Fleming。

The name is much older than the war. It probably comes from words for wet, flowing land — mudflats and salt marshes by the sea.

The name is much older than the war這個名字比那場戰爭古老得多。 It probably comes from words for wet, flowing land它大概是從「濕地、流動的土地」這類字來的—— mudflats and salt marshes by the sea指海邊的泥灘和鹽沼。