来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1871年后的法国 第16集 第16集》

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  before the outbreak of World War One.
  在一战爆发前是这样
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  One of the most striking fears experienced by the soldiers of the great War was of dying alone,
  一战士兵最害怕的事情就是孤独地死去
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  in the midst of an immense land,
  一个人死在广袤的土地上
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  abandoned by their comrades because of the violence of the battle,
  因为战争的残酷 他们被战友抛弃
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  without a truce for stretcher-bearers;
  没有给担架手留出的停战时间
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  or because the short, unofficial truces were too precarious,
  或者由于短暂非正式的停战
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  soldiers who fell wounded between the lines
  在边界线倒下的士兵
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  lay dying for hours, sometimes days.
  倒在地上几个小时 甚至几天 直至死去
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  According to the military historian John Keegan, one-third of the 20,000
  根据战争历史学家约翰·基根的看法
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  men who died on the Somme on July 1st,
  在索姆河战役第一天死去的两万人中
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  1916, might have been saved had the wounded soldiers been aided,
  如果有人抢救 三分之一的士兵可以救活
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  as they probably would have been half a century earlier.
  半个世纪前 大概会进行抢救