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What followed I do not know.
接下來發生了什么我就不知道了。
One person had it that I lost my key to the apartment I was sharing, and was found lying unconscious outside the door.
有人說，我弄丟了和別人合住的公寓房門鑰匙，被人發現時已昏倒在門外。
A friend would inform me in a letter that I had been wandering in the streets and picked up by the police, and that I resisted violently.
一個朋友在信中告訴我，我一直在大街上徘徊，被警察帶走，我還激烈地反抗了。
I was in a hospital ward.
我住進了一間醫院的病房。
It wasn't an army hospital, but Kings Park on Long Island.
這不是一家軍隊醫院，而是長島上的“國王公園”。
I suppose that was because after the war the veterans' hospitals were too crowded, and the rest had to be put in other places.
我認為，這是因為戰后退伍軍人醫院爆滿，剩下的人員只好安排到別的地方。
What name have they given it now, the illness I had as a result of being shot at and shelled for months on end?
我的病是在槍林彈雨中連續戰斗幾個月的結果，現在給這個病起了什么名稱?
I don't suppose many of our soldiers in the Gulf War have suffered from it—they were spared a long engagement.
我想，在海灣戰爭中我們的士兵沒有多少人會得上這種病一他們沒有長期與敵人交火。
After Vietnam it was called "post-traumatic stress disorder."
越南戰爭結束后，這種病被稱作“創傷后應激障礙”；
In World War II it was called "combat fatigue."
在第二次世界大戰中被稱為“戰斗疲勞癥”；
In the Great War (I prefer that name, for the Great War was what people at the time thought it was) it was called "shell shock."
在“偉大戰爭”（我喜歡“偉大戰爭”這個名稱，因為當時人們就是這樣看待這場戰爭的）期間被稱作“炮彈震蕩癥”；
In the Civil War it was "soldier's heart."
在內戰時被稱作“士兵心理癥”。
The name strikes me as the best, for it describes an illness that involved my heart as much as my head.
這個病名給我的印象最深，因為它說明了這個疾病既涉及我的大腦，也涉及我的心臟。
My heart would beat faster, I would tremble and sweat and, on occasion, pass out.
我常常會心跳加快，渾身發抖、流汗，有時還昏倒。
