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In the dark it was like summer lightning,
在黑暗中，這情況真像夏天的閃電，只是夜里陰涼，
but the nights were cool and there was not the feeling of a storm coming.
可沒有夏天風雨欲來前的那種悶熱。
Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors.
有時在黑暗中，我們聽得見部隊從窗下走過的聲響，還有摩托牽引車拖著大炮經過的響聲。
There was much traffic at night,
夜里交通頻繁，
and many mules on the roads with boxes of ammunition on each side of their pack-saddles and gray motor-trucks that carried men,
路上有許多馱著彈藥箱的驢子，運送士兵的灰色卡車，
and other trucks with loads covered with canvas that moved slower in the traffic.
還有一種卡車，裝的東西用帆布蓋住，開起來緩慢一點。
There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors,
白天也有用牽引車拖著走的重炮，
the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors.
長炮管用青翠的樹枝遮住，牽引車本身也蓋上青翠多葉的樹枝和葡萄藤。
To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the river.
朝北我們望得見山谷后邊有一座栗樹樹林，林子后邊，在河的這一邊，另有一道高山。
There was fighting for that mountain too,
那座山峰也有爭奪戰，
but it was not successful,
不過不順手，
and in the fall when the rains came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain.
而當秋天一到，秋雨連綿，栗樹上的葉子都掉了下來，就只剩下赤裸裸的樹枝和被雨打成黑黝黝的樹干。
The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet，
葡萄園中的枝葉也很稀疏光禿；
and brown and dead with the autumn,
鄉間樣樣東西都是濕漉漉的，都是褐色的，觸目秋意蕭索。
there were mists over the river and clouds on the mountain and trucks splashed mud on the road and the troops were muddy and wet in their capes;
河上罩霧，山間盤云，卡車在路上濺泥漿，士兵披肩淋濕，身上盡是爛泥；
their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge-boxes on the front of belts,
他們的來福槍也是濕的，每人身前的皮帶上掛有兩個灰皮子彈盒，
gray leather boxes heavy with the packs of clips of thin, long 6.5mm. cartridges, bulged forward under the capes so that the men,
里面滿裝著一排排又長又窄的六點五毫米口徑的子彈，在披肩下高高突出，
passing on the road, marched as though they were six months gone with child.
當他們在路上走過時，乍一看，好像是些懷孕六月的婦人。
