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聽力原文及翻譯
I said to myself that I was responsible to the country for this. I must go with him and protect the nation against him as far as I could, so I joined up with him and away we went to the field. And there, oh dear, it was terrible, mistakes, fearful mistakes. Why, he never did anything that was right, nothing but mistakes, but you see, nobody knew the secret of how stupid he really was. Everybody misunderstood his actions. They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence, they did, honestly. His smallest mistakes made a man in his right mind cry and shout and scream too, to himself, of course.
我對自己說,我要為國家負責。我必須和他一起去,盡我所能保護國家免受他的傷害,所以我加入了他的行列,我們一起去了戰(zhàn)場。天哪,那真是太可怕了,犯了錯誤,可怕的錯誤。為什么,他從來沒有做過任何正確的事情,除了錯誤什么也沒有,但你知道,沒有人知道他到底有多愚蠢。每個人都誤解了他的行為。他們認為他犯的愚蠢錯誤是聰明才智的體現(xiàn),他們確實如此,真的。他犯的最小的錯誤也會讓一個頭腦清醒的人哭泣、大喊和尖叫,當然,是對自己說的。
And what kept me in continual fear was the fact that every mistake he made increased his glory and fame. I kept saying to myself that when at last they find out about him, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky. He continued to climb up over the dead bodies of his superiors. Then, in the hottest moment of one battle, down went our colonel. My heart jumped into my mouth, for Scorsby was the next in line to take his place. "Now we are in for it," I said.
讓我一直害怕的是,他犯的每一個錯誤都會增加他的榮耀和名望。我不斷地對自己說,當他們最終發(fā)現(xiàn)他時,那將像太陽從天上掉下來一樣。他繼續(xù)爬過上級的尸體。然后,在一場戰(zhàn)斗最激烈的時刻,我們的上校倒下了。我的心都跳到了嘴里,因為斯科斯比是下一個接替他的人。 “現(xiàn)在我們陷入困境了,”我說。
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