going on day and night for ten months.

双方日夜不停地进行着火力交锋
Little pockets of men would be caught in one part of the battle,

很少有人在战场上被俘
and they stayed put to make sure that the Germans would not get through.

他们坚守阵地确保德军无法侵入
The French line was in ils ne passeront pas.

法国战线上的士兵要确保敌军不能越界
They won't get through and they didn't.

事实上敌军也确实没能入侵
One group of such men were almost certainly buried by a landslide.

但法军有一个小队人马几乎被山崩掩埋
The weight of artillery barrage in the mud would mean

炮火击中了湿地这导致
the earth would move when, indeed,

地表运动
the artillery barrage hit a particularly wet part of the front.

特别是当炮火击中前沿阵地的湿地时
So, a group of men were buried alive,

因此一整队人被活埋
which is a very normal practice in the course of the First World War.

这在一战中很寻常
The German group of soldiers, the platoon that took it,

当时有一个排的德军不幸遭遇这种事