Tristan: Those boys are boring. I'd rather have you watching my back.
Man: Go, mate .
Samuel: February 3rd, 1915. Dear Susannah. The horror of this place is
indescribable. Nothing is as I thought it would be. Tonight as I prayed for the
souls of those who died so terribly yet so bravely, I admit that I also prayed
for personal glory. Is that wrong to want to
distinguish myself gloriously in combat as my father did?
Tristan and Alfred watch over me so carefully that I may never get the
opportunity.
Man: Charge !
Tristan: God damn it! Are you
hit?
Samuel: It's just a scratch.
Samuel: Susannah, I see now not that my father was right but that I was
naive.
Samuel: Let me get up! Damn it!
Tristan: Stay down!
Man: Fall back!
Samuel: Still, we place our bodies in God's keeping. We go into battle
honorably. Full of confidence, with His name on our lips.
Man1: We're pinned
here.
Man2: We'll wait.
Man3: Give him a hand.
Man4: Help him down.
Samuel: Susannah, I try to guard against
despair , but there are moments when it seems all human decency
is broken done. Alfred will recover from his wounds. But he and Tristan seem to
have drifted apart, or worse. And I cannot understand it. I miss you more than
you can imagine. You're all that's clean and cool and pure. I close my eyes and
fix my thoughts on you. I now regret that we listened to everyone and agreed to
wait to marry. Even more, I regret that I left before we could be together as we
planned to be, my love. Please stay on at the ranch and wait for me. Don't let
Father worry. I know God's mercy will protect me, aided considerably by Tristan,
who seems to come to France less to fight the Germans than to act as my
nursemaid. Be well, my love. Your own, Samuel.
妙語佳句，活學活用
1. Mate
這是一個男人之間常用的詞，意思是“哥兒們，老兄，伙計”。比如：Sorry mate, you have to wait. 對不起，伙計，你得等著。
Samuel: Tristan, get back to your unit.
Man1: We're pinned
here.
