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听力原文及翻译

I said to myself that I was responsible to the country for this. I must go with him and protect the nation against him as far as I could, so I joined up with him and away we went to the field. And there, oh dear, it was terrible, mistakes, fearful mistakes. Why, he never did anything that was right, nothing but mistakes, but you see, nobody knew the secret of how stupid he really was. Everybody misunderstood his actions. They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence, they did, honestly. His smallest mistakes made a man in his right mind cry and shout and scream too, to himself, of course. 

我对自己说，我要为国家负责。我必须和他一起去，尽我所能保护国家免受他的伤害，所以我加入了他的行列，我们一起去了战场。天哪，那真是太可怕了，犯了错误，可怕的错误。为什么，他从来没有做过任何正确的事情，除了错误什么也没有，但你知道，没有人知道他到底有多愚蠢。每个人都误解了他的行为。他们认为他犯的愚蠢错误是聪明才智的体现，他们确实如此，真的。他犯的最小的错误也会让一个头脑清醒的人哭泣、大喊和尖叫，当然，是对自己说的。

And what kept me in continual fear was the fact that every mistake he made increased his glory and fame. I kept saying to myself that when at last they find out about him, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky. He continued to climb up over the dead bodies of his superiors. Then, in the hottest moment of one battle, down went our colonel. My heart jumped into my mouth, for Scorsby was the next in line to take his place. "Now we are in for it," I said.

让我一直害怕的是，他犯的每一个错误都会增加他的荣耀和名望。我不断地对自己说，当他们最终发现他时，那将像太阳从天上掉下来一样。他继续爬过上级的尸体。然后，在一场战斗最激烈的时刻，我们的上校倒下了。我的心都跳到了嘴里，因为斯科斯比是下一个接替他的人。 “现在我们陷入困境了，”我说。

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