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Samuel: Tristan, get back to your unit.

Tristan: Those boys are boring. I'd rather have you watching my back.

Man: Go, mate .

Samuel: February 3rd, 1915. Dear Susannah. The horror of this place is indescribable. Nothing is as I thought it would be. Tonight as I prayed for the souls of those who died so terribly yet so bravely, I admit that I also prayed for personal glory. Is that wrong to want to distinguish myself gloriously in combat as my father did? Tristan and Alfred watch over me so carefully that I may never get the opportunity.

Man: Charge !

Tristan: God damn it! Are you hit?

Samuel: It's just a scratch. 

Samuel: Susannah, I see now not that my father was right but that I was naive.

Samuel: Let me get up! Damn it!

Tristan: Stay down!

Man: Fall back!

Samuel: Still, we place our bodies in God's keeping. We go into battle honorably. Full of confidence, with His name on our lips.

Man1: We're pinned here.

Man2: We'll wait.

Man3: Give him a hand.

Man4: Help him down.

Samuel: Susannah, I try to guard against despair , but there are moments when it seems all human decency is broken done. Alfred will recover from his wounds. But he and Tristan seem to have drifted apart, or worse. And I cannot understand it. I miss you more than you can imagine. You're all that's clean and cool and pure. I close my eyes and fix my thoughts on you. I now regret that we listened to everyone and agreed to wait to marry. Even more, I regret that I left before we could be together as we planned to be, my love. Please stay on at the ranch and wait for me. Don't let Father worry. I know God's mercy will protect me, aided considerably by Tristan, who seems to come to France less to fight the Germans than to act as my nursemaid. Be well, my love. Your own, Samuel.

妙语佳句，活学活用

1. Mate

这是一个男人之间常用的词，意思是“哥儿们，老兄，伙计”。比如：Sorry mate, you have to wait. 对不起，伙计，你得等着。

2. Distinguish oneself

“使出名/杰出”的意思。Samuel 这句话的意思是：我想像我父亲那样在战斗中建功立业，难道错了吗？

3. Are you hit?

“Are you hit by bullet?”的简略说法。

4. Scratch

“擦伤”的意思。

5. Stay down

“蹲下！”在一些打斗游戏中常可见这类说法，其他的还有 take cover 找掩护，move 走（行动起来的意思，也可以表示跑），charge 进攻，fall back 撤退。

6. We're pinned here.

“我们被困在这里了。” Pin 的本意是“大头针”，也可以做动词表示“钉住，别住，困住”，例如：The passenger was pinned under the wreckage of the truck. 卡车翻车后，乘客们被卡住了。

7. Guard against despair

Guard against 的意思是“提防，预防”，这里 Samuel 的意思是“我试着让自己不要绝望”。