30 A New Start

CHAPTER 30 A New Start The noises around them began to grow weaker and less frequent. Henry and Wilson suddenly looked up, worried at the silence. They could see changes going on among the troops, who were marching this way and that. Henry stood up. "Well, what now, I wonder," he said. He seemed to be preparing for some new noise. He shaded his eyes with his dirty hand and gazed over the field. Wilson also stood and stared.

第三十章新的开始他们周围的声音开始变得越来越弱，越来越少。 亨利和威尔逊突然抬起头来，对沉默感到担忧。 他们可以看到军队中发生的变化，他们朝这边和那边前进。 亨利站了起来。“好吧，现在怎么办，我不知道，”他说。 他似乎在准备迎接新的喧闹。 他用脏手遮住眼睛，凝视着田野。 威尔逊也站在那里凝视着。

"I bet we're going to get out of this and back over the river," he said. They waited and watched. In a little while, the troop received orders to retrace its way. The men got up from the grass and stretched their arms over their heads. One man swore as he rubbed his eyes. They all groaned. They had as many objections to this as they would have had to a proposal for a new battle. They had been comfortable where they were. The men marched back over the field slowly. Just a short time earlier they had run across it madly. The troop kept walking until it joined the rest of the army. The troops reformed into columns and marched through the woods. They passed within view of a white house. In front of it were groups of their soldiers firing at a distant enemy. At this point the troops curved away from the field and went winding off in the

他说：“我敢打赌，我们会离开这里，回到河对岸。” 他们等待着，注视着。过了一会儿，部队接到了折回的命令。 男人们从草地上站起来，把胳膊伸到头上。 一个人一边揉眼睛一边咒骂。 他们都唉声叹气。他们对这一提议的反对，就像他们对发起一场新的战争的反对一样多。 他们在那里过得很舒服。 士兵们慢慢地从田野上走回来。 就在不久之前，他们还疯狂地跑过这里。 这支部队一直走到和其余部队会合为止。 部队重新排成纵队，穿过树林。 他们经过一座白宫的视野范围内。 在它的前面，是一群士兵在向远处的敌人射击。 在这一点上，部队从战场上转过身来，蜿蜒地走了

direction of the river. When Henry realized where they were going, he looked over his shoulder at the trampled ground and breathed deeply with satisfaction. Then he nudged Wilson and said, "Well, we're leaving the battlefield. It's all over." Wilson gazed backward, too. "It really is," he said, in amazement. It took some time for Henry to adjust to this change. Slowly his brain came out of the clouds and he was able to understand where he was and what was happening. He understood that the time to fight was in the past. He had been in a land of strange battles, and had come back. He had been where there was red blood and black passion, and he had escaped. His first thoughts were to celebrate. Later, he began to study his actions—his failures and his achievements. He felt happy and did not regret anything. Only the best of

河流的方向。当亨利意识到他们要去哪里时，他回头看了看被践踏的地面，满意地深吸了一口气。 然后他轻轻地推了推威尔逊，说：“好了，我们要离开战场了。 一切都结束了。”威尔逊也向后看了看。 “真的，”他惊讶地说。 亨利花了一些时间来适应这种变化。 慢慢地，他的头脑从迷雾中浮现出来，他能够明白自己在哪里，发生了什么。 他明白战斗的时间已经过去了。 他去过一个充满奇怪战争的地方，现在又回来了。 他到过有红血和黑色激情的地方，却逃了出来。 他首先想到的是庆祝。 后来，他开始研究自己的行为——他的失败和成就。 他感到很高兴，不后悔任何事。 只有最好的

his actions had been witnessed. It was a pleasure to remember these things, and he spent a long time reliving them in his mind. He saw that he was good. He recalled with a thrill of joy the comments of his comrades about how brave he had been. Still, the ghost of his flight from the first battle came back to him. There were small complaints in his brain about this. He blushed for a moment, and he felt a flicker of shame. Then the memory of the tattered soldier whom he had deserted in the field came back to him. For an instant, a chill of sweat came over him at the thought that others might know how he had behaved. He gave a cry of pain. Wilson turned and asked, "What's the matter, Henry?" Henry could only reply with curses muttered to himself.

有人目睹了他的行为。 记住这些事情是一种乐趣，他花了很长时间在脑海中重温。 他看到自己很优秀。他愉快地回忆起同志们对他多么勇敢的评价。 然而，他从第一次战斗中逃跑的幽灵又回到了他的脑海中。 对此，他的脑子里有些小小的抱怨。 他脸红了一会儿，感到一阵羞愧。 这时，他又想起了那个被他遗弃在战场上的衣衫褴褛的士兵。 一想到别人可能知道他的行为，他就不寒而栗。 他痛苦地叫了一声。威尔逊转过身问：“怎么了，亨利？”亨利只能自言自语地咒骂着。

As he marched, this vision of his behavior hung over him. It clung to him and darkened his good memories. Whichever way his thoughts turned, they were followed by the phantom of the tattered soldier left alone in the field. Henry looked at his friends and felt certain that they could see the guilt in his face. But they were walking away, talking about the great victory in the recent battle. For a time, this memory of the tattered soldier took all the celebration out of Henry. He saw his mistake, and he was afraid that it would stay with him for his entire life. He didn't talk with his friends and tried not to look at any of them. But slowly he gathered the strength to put the sin behind him. And at last, his eyes seemed to open to some new ways. He looked back at his behavior and beliefs before he had been in the battles, and he discovered that he hated the way he had been.

在他前进的过程中，他的行为一直萦绕在他的脑海里。 这件事缠住了他，使他美好的记忆蒙上了阴影。 不管他怎么想，他的脑海里总是浮现出那个孤零零地留在战场上的衣衫褴褛的士兵的幻影。 亨利看着他的朋友们，确信他们能看出他脸上的内疚。 但是他们走开了，谈论着最近战斗中的伟大胜利。 有一段时间，对那个衣衫褴褛的士兵的回忆使亨利失去了所有的庆祝精神。 他看到了自己的错误，他害怕这个错误会伴随他一生。 他不和朋友们说话，尽量不去看他们中的任何一个人。 但慢慢地，他积聚了力量，把罪恶抛在脑后。 最后，他的眼睛似乎看到了一些新的东西。 他回顾了自己参加战斗之前的行为和信仰，发现自己讨厌过去的自己。

With this discovery came self-confidence. He felt that he had really become a strong and quiet man. He knew that he wouldn't back down from any future battles. He had been close to death and found that, after all, it was only death. So it happened that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath, his soul changed. He was not angry and fearful anymore. It rained. The soldiers marched in the mud. They appeared upset and were muttering to themselves. But Henry smiled, for he saw that the world was waiting for him. He had rid himself of the sickness of battle. The nightmare was in the past. He had been an animal, blistered and sweating in the heat and pain of war. He turned now to an image of beautiful skies, fresh meadows, and cool rivers: a life of soft and unending peace. Over the river, a golden ray of sun came through the rain clouds.

这一发现带来了自信。 他觉得自己真的变成了一个坚强而安静的人。 他知道他不会在未来的任何战斗中退缩。 他曾一度濒临死亡，却发现那终究只是死亡。 就这样，当他从血与怒的地方走出来的时候，他的灵魂改变了。 他不再生气和害怕了。 下雨了。士兵们在泥泞中行进。 他们显得心烦意乱，自言自语。 但是亨利笑了，因为他知道整个世界都在等着他。 他已摆脱了战争病。 噩梦已经过去了。 他曾经是一只动物，在战争的炎热和痛苦中起了水泡，满头大汗。 现在，他的脑海里浮现出美丽的天空、清新的草地和凉爽的河流：一种温柔而永恒的平静生活。 河的上空，一缕金色的阳光透过雨云照了进来。