来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命第2集第2集》

a title and then they would be able to hang on to that title

可以拥有一个头衔然后靠着那个头衔
to really claim a place for themselves in society.

在社会中挣得一席之地
And when I was researching my first book

在我为自己的第一本书做研究时
I came across a case

无意中发现一件事
where there were these two guys--

是说酒馆里的两个男人
it sounds like a bad joke--two guys in a tavern.

乍一听像个不雅的笑话
There were these two guys in a tavern

话说酒馆里的有两个男人
and one of them is a military officer

一个是军官
and one of them isn't,

另一个不是
and I guess the guy who wasn't a military officer

我猜想那个不是军官的家伙
wasn't so clear on the whole rank thing

对于军衔等级不是很了解
and he called the fellow by a

他叫那个军官的时候