5 Chapter 4 Victory

CHAPTER 4 Victory Joan and two hundred of her soldiers were now inside the walls of Orléans. Soldiers were not known for polite behavior. But Joan's army was different. She insisted that the men use no bad language. They had to go to church. When girls came to the camp to flirt with the soldiers, Joan ordered them away. Some of the soldiers resented being bossed around by Joan. The English lived in forts that they had built just outside the city walls. Sometimes Joan called out to them over the walls of the city with orders to leave France. They shouted back that they would burn her if they ever caught her.

贞德和她的二百名士兵现在已经进入了奥尔萨姆斯城。 士兵们的举止并不讲究礼貌。 但贞德的军队不同。 她坚持要求男人们不要说脏话。 他们不得不去教堂。当女孩们来到营地和士兵调情时，琼命令她们离开。 有些士兵对琼的颐指气使感到不满。 英国人住在他们在城墙外建造的堡垒里。 有时贞德越过城墙向他们喊话，命令他们离开法国。 他们大声回应说，如果他们抓到她，就烧死她。

On May 4, French troops fought against the English at Saint-Loup (say: SAN-LOO), a town about a mile away. Back in Orléans, Joan woke suddenly from a nap. She was sure that there was fighting going on and French blood was being spilled! She raced out to Saint-Loup. When the soldiers saw Joan

5月4日，法军在一英里外的圣卢镇与英军交战。 回到奥尔姆斯，琼突然从午睡中醒来。 她确信战斗正在进行，法国人的鲜血正在洒出来!她跑到圣卢。 当士兵们看到琼时

riding toward them with her banner, they felt as if God was on their side. They summoned their courage and beat back the English soldiers. Victory! Joan learned more English forces would be arriving soon. The next day, May 5, was a holy day. It was considered disrespectful to God to wage war on holy days. All the armies—both French and English—honored the church's holy days, so there would be no fighting that day. Joan wrote another letter to the English. She tied it to an arrow and shot it at them. "I would have sent you this letter in a more suitable manner," she wrote, "but . . . you have kept my herald." Joan offered to trade some prisoners for the herald, but the English only answered her with insults.

他们骑着她的旗帜向他们走来，他们觉得好像上帝站在他们一边。 他们鼓起勇气打退了英国士兵。 胜利!琼得知更多的英国军队即将到来。 第二天，5月5日，是个神圣的日子。 在圣日发动战争被认为是对上帝的不敬。 所有的军队——包括法国军队和英国军队——都尊重教会的圣日，所以那天不会有战斗。 琼又给英国人写了一封信。 她把它绑在一支箭上，向他们射去。 “我本可以用更合适的方式给你写这封信，”她写道，“但是。 。。你替我传令。” 琼提出用一些囚犯交换信使，但英国人只以侮辱回应她。

This brought Joan to tears—not because it hurt her feelings, but because she hated seeing so many people get hurt in battle. Joan herself had never—and would never—kill anyone. She didn't understand why the English didn't just go home to England!

这让琼流下了眼泪——不是因为这伤害了她的感情，而是因为她讨厌看到这么多人在战斗中受伤。 琼自己从来没有，也永远不会杀任何人。 她不明白为什么英国人不直接回英国去!

On May 7, 1429, Joan set her sights on capturing two towers that stood on the outskirts of the city. English soldiers had been stationed in them. Joan and her French soldiers attacked the towers. Around noon, as Joan was climbing a ladder, she was shot by an arrow. The arrow went deep between her

1429年5月7日，琼将目标锁定在城郊的两座塔楼上。 英国士兵驻扎在那里。 琼和她的法国士兵袭击了塔楼。 中午时分，琼正在爬梯子时，被一支箭射中了。 箭深深地射中了她