That's a high casualty rate and many a military unit will break if they have that many casualties.

这个比率相当高,在如此之高的伤亡率下,许多军事单位会因此而瓦解

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I think almost 20,000 on that day died, and in the Battle of the Somme, as it unfolded, there were a million casualties.

在那一天我想大概有两万名士兵死去，并且在索姆河战役中，据显示，有一百万死者。

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Now, another issue that emerges in discussion of these kinds of battles is the casualties.

此类战争中的另一个问题,是伤亡人数

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He eventually switched; his New York this happened in many regiments in the Civil War it took so many casualties it ceased to exist and he switched to a Connecticut regiment and he served that Connecticut regiment through the summer of 1864.

他最终换了军队,内战期这很平常,他所在的纽约军队伤亡惨重,全军覆灭,他来到康乃狄格军队,他一直在此服役,度过了1865年夏

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If you multiply her, then you want to have as much depth to fill in behind to close that hole as you can, so that that would make your phalanx more sturdy, because you could take more casualties without breaking, that seems reasonable to me.

如果再多一些,你就需要在后面增加足够的排数,尽可能地填补缺口,这会使你的方阵固若金汤,即使伤亡惨重也不影响阵容的坚固,这在我看来是合理的

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For a long, long time the general wisdom was there were not heavy casualties in hoplite battles -- people calculating on what I was just talking about.

长期以来的共识是,方阵战不会造成大规模的伤亡,人们相信这一点

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Another tangible way of understanding who won the battle and who didn't, is we winners, because we own the field, we can pick up the casualties, take care of those who can be saved, bury the ones who have been killed; we don't have to ask anybody's permission.

还有一种显而易见的,判断谁胜谁败的方法,我们占领了战场,我们就是胜方,我们清理战场,处置死伤者,医治能救活的人,埋葬阵亡的人,我们不需要征求任何人的同意

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