what you would do is climb up over the trench,

你只需爬出战壕
nd then face this machinegun fire, and get as far as you could.

然后面向枪击尽所能的走远
Many did not get very far at all.

许多人并未能走很远
And there is--get your head down and hope it doesn't land on you.

低下头希望它不会落到你身上
That's how most people died, the majority of people died through

大多数人那样死的大部分的人死在
shelling, in these kinds of creeping barrages or just basic shelling.

炮弹中在弹幕射击或仅在枪弹里
Sharpshooters were also a problem.

狙击手也同样是个问题
That's how--many of you have read All Quiet on the Western

你们许多人都读过西线无战事
Front, and that's how he gets killed at the end,

他最后就是这么被打死的
because he puts his head up and someone blows it away.

因为他抬头了有人就崩了他的头
But generally they used these kind of periscopes to look up

但通常来说他们会用这种潜望镜查看
and to survey the scene.

和测量环境