The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the ...
The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those who won it as to those who lost it. — 滑铁卢之战是一个谜团。对于那些赢得它的人和那些输掉它的人都一样晦涩难懂。 — For Napoleon it was a panic;[10] Blu...
If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps the finest reply that a Frenchman ever...
The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. 卫队后面的大路是忧郁的。 The army yielded suddenly on all sides at once,–Hougomont, La Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. — 军队突然在各个方向纷纷溃退,-乌戈蒙、拉...
Every one knows the rest,–the irruption of a third army; the battle broken to pieces; — 每个人都知道剩下的,–第三支军队的侵入;战斗支离破碎; — eighty-six months of fire thundering simultaneously; Pirch...
The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, had never been in a better humor than on that day. — 皇帝虽然身体不适,骑在马上受到当地麻烦的困扰,但从未像那天那样心情如此愉快。 — His impene...
Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; — 每个人都熟悉这场战斗的第一阶段; — a beginning which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but still more...
Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb of the A is the road to Nivelles, the ...
Let us turn back,–that is one of the story-teller’s rights,– and put ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than the epoch when the action narrated in the ...
Three o’clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking thus for five hours, almost uninterruptedly, when he at length allowed himself to drop into his chair. 凌晨三点钟刚刚...