One of the things that soldiers had to carry with them were wire cutters.

士兵们参战时都要携带钢丝钳
Sometimes the wire cutters weren't equal to the task of cutting the wire.

有时钢丝钳并不仅仅用来割电线
It's hard to cut wire if people are firing machine guns at you as well.

有人用机枪向你开火时割电线很困难
That's why the trenches, which you'll see some real ones in a minute,

一会让你们见识一下真正的战壕
are fairly elaborate defensive weapons.

会成为精心设计的防守武器的原因
Everybody has seen the footage of real battle.

人人都见过镜头中的战场
Sometimes--they've wrecked it,

有时战壕已经遭到人为破坏
but the Imperial War Museum, which used to be much better than it is now in London,

但伦敦帝国战争博物馆虽没有原来好
but it's really worth seeing.

却的确值得一去
They used to have this amazing small clip.

过去他们还保留着这个神奇的小片段
You see these three guys and they're about ready to go.

你们看这三个家伙已经准备冲锋了
One guy blows his whistle to say, "Follow me."

其中一个吹着口哨说 "跟我来"