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In mid-afternoon,the commander of the parliamentary army, the Earl of Essex,

下午三点左右 议会军指挥官埃塞克斯伯爵下令

began to cannonade the Royalist infantry.

炮击保皇党步兵团

Balls thudded and hissed in the grass,taking a life here, a limb there.

炮弹在草地上炸开弹片横飞 到处是尸体和残肢

Then Prince Rupert led his cavalry forward down the hill.

随后鲁珀特王子率领骑兵冲下山坡

For the men in the parliament lines,

议会军前线的士兵

watching a distant trot turn into a canter and then a charge,

眼看骑兵从远处一路冲锋到近前

and seeing their own muskets have no effect on the suddenly terrifyingly hurtling horsemen,the moment of truth had arrived.

而他们的火枪对那些 疾如闪电气势骇人的骑兵毫无作用 关键时刻来临了

War slammed into them.Big dark horses, bright, deadly steel.

战局急转直下 满眼是高大的战马和夺命的刀光剑影

They panicked and broke,Rupert's horsemen following fleeing troopers all the way to the baggage train.

他们惊慌失措不堪一击 鲁珀特的骑兵穷追不舍 一直追到后方的辎重运输车驻地

Rupert must have thought this was going to be easy.

鲁珀特一定认为胜利会来得轻而易举

But by now the parliamentary infantry had crawled forward,

但此时议会军步兵正在缓缓前行

the two great phalanxes of pikemen heaving and pushing at each other amidst the musket fire until they dropped of exhaustion.

双方方阵中的长枪兵 在枪林弹雨中向着对方前进 直到有人精疲力竭倒地不起

Somewhere amidst the smoke, fire and steel was Sir Edmund Verney.

埃德蒙·瓦内爵士就站在硝烟弥漫的战场中

The royal standard clenched in his hand made him an obvious target.

他紧握在手中的王旗 使他成为了靶子

They never even found his corpse.

人们最后连他的尸首也无法找到

词汇解析

1、standard

(尤指合格的)水平，水准

The standard of professional cricket has never been lower.

职业板球的水平从来没有这么低过。

There will be new national standards for hospital cleanliness.

有关医院清洁的新国家标准将会出台。

(用以衡量质量的)标准，基准

systems that were by later standards absurdly primitive.

以后来的标准来衡量显得非常原始的系统

普通的;常规的

It was standard practice for untrained clerks to advise in serious cases such as murder.

让未经过训练的书记员在诸如谋杀等重大案件中提供建议是普遍的做法。

No other executive car can offer you the same level of standard equipment at this price.

再无其他高级轿车能按这个价格水平为你提供同样水准的标准配置。

2、obvious

明显的；显然的；无疑的

the need to rectify what is an obvious injustice.

矫正明显不公的需要

Determining how the Democratic challenger would conduct his presidency isn't quite so obvious.

这位民主党挑战者将如何履行总统职务还不能明确判断。

不必要的;无新意的；缺乏想象力的

There are some very obvious phrases that we all know or certainly should know better than to use.

我们都知道或是肯定应该知道有些说法已毫无新意，最好避免使用。