because they're eating well--which was obviously not the case,

因为他们条件好伙食好全是谎言
they're eating frozen potatoes, and when Pétain increases the

他们吃的是冻土豆当贝当元帅增加了
rum ration so they could go over the top a little tipsy

朗姆酒的供给后士兵们可以喝高一点
to get killed in Verdun in 1916.

再上1916年的凡尔登战场送死
So, there was this enormous-- and this is one of the scenes in the

于是正如文学作品里常常出现
literature of the war-- there's this huge discontinuity

场景一样百姓的认知和士兵的实况
between the civilian life and the soldiers.

之间有天壤之别
And the soldiers can't talk about it when they come back,

归来的士兵却不能谈论这差别
and they say things like, "what do they imagine?

他们不能说 "你们以为是怎么样的呢
That we jump up every morning and say, 'long live France,'

难道我们每天早晨都要高呼法国万岁
'long live Germany,' 'long live Italy'?"--

或者德意志万岁意大利万岁"
depending on your case-- and jump over the top heroically in

根据不同国籍英勇地