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The survey for a veterans' charity also found one in 10 thought the SS stood for Enid Blyton's Secret Seven, and one in 12 believed the Blitz was a European clean-up operation following the Second World War.

这项为一个老兵慈善组织开展的调查发现，十分之一的受访学生将SS当成伊妮德·布莱顿的作品《七个小孩》，12人中有一人认为(1940 年德国对英国的)"闪电战"空袭是"二战"后欧洲开展的一次清扫行动。

This immortal ditty appeared in John Brophy and Eric Partridge,'Songs and Slang of the British Soldier: 1914-1918,' 1930, and has been preserved in 'The Long Trail,' lamentably out of print in Britain, but to be reprinted in the US.

那个叼着玉米棒子烟斗的麦克阿瑟，和他在1951年4月19日被解职后在国会大厦发表的题为《老兵不死》演讲，于是许多人把这句名言归在麦帅名下，其实在那篇演讲里就提到了，这句话是来自于一首军歌的副歌那首歌的歌词如下

The keynoter was Senator Dan Inouye of Hawaii, a brave Japanese-American veteran of World War II, to whom I awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2000, a belated recognition of the heroism that had cost him an arm, and very nearly his life, while his own people were being herded into detention camps back home.

主要发言人是夏威夷的井上健参议员，一位勇敢的日裔美国二战老兵。2000年我曾授予他国会荣誉勋章，这是对他英雄事迹迟到的褒奖。他在战争中失去了一条胳膊，还差点儿送了命，可他的日裔美国同胞却被赶入国内的拘留营。

One of the course instructors, 87-year-old Flight Lieutenant Paddy Raine, a veteran of Bomber Command in World War II, said the academically bright bunch on the course "were very different from your normal" National Serviceman and enjoyed a more relaxed regime.

瑞尼是当时一门课程的讲师之一，他曾是二战期间轰炸机指挥部经验丰富的老兵。他说，成绩好的那群人"和普通的服役士兵非常不一样"，他们喜欢更宽松的环境。

On November 17th UBS's newish boss, Oswald Grübel, a hard-bitten veteran who was hauled out of retirement in February, outlined plans to turn the bank around.

十一月十七日，瑞银的新老板Oswald Grübel，一个倔强的"老兵"被从二月份刚开始的退休生活中召回，制定银行转型的计划。

Scholarships in the unusual category range from grants for accordion players, asthma patients, amateur radio operators, bird watchers, bicyclists, blind students, boy scouts and girl scouts, bowlers, cartoon experts, children of veterans, choral singers, cheerleaders, debaters, entrepreneurs, farmers, French speakers, Gospel musicians, grandchildren of alumni, Huguenot descendants, never married students, overweight students, etc. This list just gives a glimpse at some of the categories, while in actual, there are much more of such unusual scholarship requirements, new ones are also being added on a regular basis.

不等的奖学金补助类别寻常手风琴选手，哮喘患者，业余无线电操作员，旁观鸟、自行车、盲生、童子军和女童子军、保龄球、动画专家、儿童老兵，合唱歌手，啦啦队的议事、企业家、农民法国议长、福音音乐、孙子女校友，huguenot后裔，从未结婚的学生，学生超重、等等这份名单只是给予一瞥一些类别，而在实际，还有更不寻常的奖学金等规定，新的矛盾也正在形成定期补充。

A retirement's Taiwan veteran is a mute, is called mute uncle, take purchases the dead soldiers and picks as lives tattered. in 1958 winter's one early morning, mute uncle picked one in the high-level residential district's tunnel the female infant who abandoned, named Algeria and US.

一个退役的台湾老兵是个哑巴，人称哑叔，以收购空酒瓶和捡破烂为生。1958年冬天的一个清晨，哑叔在高级住宅区的巷道里捡回一个被遗弃的女婴，取名阿美。

In the excitement of battle all but the oldest and steadiest troops are liable to mishandle their weapons. One man, in his haste forgets the wadding between powder and ball, anther the wadding to keep the ball down.

在紧张的战役中，纵使精练的老兵也很容易不适当的使用他们的火绳枪，例如忘记在火药和弹丸之间填装wadding，或者忘记了把弹丸塞紧。

His extreme dissatisfaction and sense of entitlement posed problems for a clinician trying to help him. As I volunteered to care for the veteran, I knew I had to do more than mollify him.

他的极端不满和权利意识给试图帮助他的临床医生带来了很大的困扰，我自告奋勇照顾老兵，我知道我要做的不只是安抚他。

But even among these old bulls, such fond memories rapidly dimmed the first time the other side's political operatives selected them as targets, flooding their districts with mail accusing them of malfeasance, corruption, incompetence, and moral turpitude.

但即便对参与过这些的老兵而言，这样的记忆也在第一次相互抹黑后迅速消失了——每个选区都会收到拆不过来的信件，而它们的内容不外乎控诉对方渎职、腐败、无能和道德沦丧。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。