高级英语第二册 第十课 para.6- translation(lesson10).pptxVIP

The sad young men; the spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high militaryadventure were soon dissipated once the eager young men had received a good taste of twentieth-century warfare.;译文; their lasting glory,they fought with distinction,but it was a much altered group of soldiers who returned from the battlefields in 1919.; 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. ; Paraphrase: It was particularly true for the young men of college age, who joined the army and took part in lots of real fighting out of idealism. On returning home, they felt much more at a loss. They sensed the future was hopeless for them. 译文:特别是大学兵团的士兵们,他们由于深受理想主义的影响很早就到军中服役，可谓是屡经沙场。; them, it was bitter to return to a home town virtually untouched by the conflict, where citizens still talked with the na?ve Fourth-of –July bombast they themselves had been guilty of two or three years earlier.;; was even more bitter to find that their old jobs had been taken by the stay-at-homes, that business was suffering a recession that prevented the opening up of new jobs,and that veterans were considered problem children and less desirable than non-veterans for whatever business opportunities that did exist.; very homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town and families and developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness which neither they nor their relatives could understand.;就连他们自己的家对他们来说也常常是不舒服的；他们再也不能适应家乡和家庭了，并且萌生出一种突如其来的、迷惘的厌世之感。这种感觉不论是他们自己还是他们的亲友都不能理解。; ; 战争激起了他们的劲头，打掉了他们的天真幼稚。而现在，在遍布全国的沉睡的、落后的地方，到处都要求他们抑制他们的劲头，并恢复那种自欺欺人的、维多利亚式的天真无邪的态度。但是他们现在觉得这种态度同那种说什么他们的战斗已“使民主在这个世界有了保障”的论调一样，都是陈旧过时的。 ; as if home town conditions were not enough, the returning veteran also had to face the sodden, Napoleonic?cynicism of Versailles