来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会第1集第1集》

at the end of the Civil War

在内战的末期
when the council of the army debated

当军事议会争论
the settlement of the kingdom in the aftermath of the war.

有关战后的王国重建问题
One of the extraordinary things about this verbatim account is

在这个速记稿中最不寻常的事情是
that you hear the voices of the common soldiers.

记录有普通士兵的发言
One of them who is representing a cavalry regiment keeps

有一个骑兵团的代表
interrupting the debate.

不断的打断这次争论
He keeps saying, "What has the soldier

他不停的问
fought for all this time?"

一直以来士兵为何而战
He uses the phrase again and again: "What has the

他一次又一次的重复这句话
soldier fought for?"

士兵为何而战
And it's thrilling because you hear for the first time the

这令人兴奋是因为