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Accordingly, they began to join the various armies in increasing numbers, the "intellectuals" in the ambulance corps, others in the infantry, merchant marine, or wherever else they could find a place.
因此，越來越多的年輕人便開始加入各兵種，"知識分子型的人"加入救護兵團，其余的人則分別加入步兵部隊、商船隊或到其他任何有其用武之地的單位去服役。
Those who were reluctant to serve in a foreign army talked excitedly about Preparedness, occasionally considered joining the National Guard, and rushed to enlist when we finally did enter the conflict.
那些不愿到外國軍隊里去服役的人則慷慨陳辭，表示自己隨時待命出征;間或也有考慮參加國民自衛隊的，待到我國最終決定參戰時他們便踴躍地報名參軍。
So tremendous was the storming of recruitment centers that harassed sergeants actually pleaded with volunteers to "go home and wait for the draft," but since no self-respecting person wanted to suffer the disgrace of being drafted, the enlistment craze continued unabated.
各征兵站的報名者都是人如潮涌，弄得主管征兵事務的軍曹們焦頭爛額，實在無法應付，以至于懇求志愿報名者且先歸家，靜待征召然而，有自尊心的人誰也不愿蒙受"被征召入伍"的恥辱，因此，青年人的參軍熱潮持久不衰。
Naturally, the spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated once the eager young men had received a good taste of twentieth- century warfare.
一旦這些滿腔熱血的年輕人飽嘗了二十世紀戰爭的滋味以后，那種縱情狂歡的興致和要從事轟轟烈烈的軍事冒險的熱情自然很快就煙消云散了。
To their lasting glory, they fought with distinction, but it was a much altered group of soldiers who returned from the battlefields in 1919.
他們可以永遠感到光榮，因為他們在戰場上表現得很出色，但是1919年從戰場上回來的卻是一批已經發生了很大變化的士兵。
Especially was this true of the college contingent, whose idealism had led them to enlist early and who had generally seen a considerable amount of action.
大學兵團的士兵們更是如此。他們在理想主義的感召下很早就到軍中服役，可渭是屢經沙場。
To them, it was bitter to return to a home town virtually untouched by the conflict, where citizens still talked with the naive Fourth-of-duly bombast they themselves had been guilty of two or three years earlier.
對他們來說，回到幾乎沒有受到戰爭的任何影響的故鄉是一件痛苦的事，因為在那里，人們仍在像慶祝獨立日時那樣天真地大唱愛國的高調，而這是他們自己兩三年前也曾犯過的錯誤。
