besides killing lots of-- the Americans invented the term

误杀了很多己方士兵美国人
"friendly fire"--besides killing their own people,

发明了一个专有词 "友军炮火"
but what they do is they create these enormous craters,

除此之外炮火还制造了巨大的弹坑
craters of death that are filled with just awful pestilent waters and

这些死亡之坑里充满了致命的液体
make it impossible to really get to the other side.

更使突破成为天方夜谭
Because once you-- once somebody goes up and blows the

一旦有人站起来吹响口哨
whistle, and says, "follow me," and you jump out of the trenches,

让其他人相随你跳出战壕
you've got to carry sixty pounds, sixty pounds worth of equipment--

身上要背六十磅[约五十五斤]的装备
now that's a lot of equipment--down into these things,

那可是不少装备
come through these craters, and then what you do is you find

你尝试跨过这些弹坑迎接你的
these machine guns, layers of them,

是一排排的机关枪
aimed right low, and they just take you out,

压低瞄准把你打得魂飞魄散