If even this stranger had smiled and been good - humoured to me when i addressed him ; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks , i should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries : but the frown , the roughness of the traveller , set me at my ease : i retained my station when he waved to me to go , and announced - 如果这位陌生人在我同他说话时微笑一下，并且对我和和气气如果他愉快地谢绝我的帮助，并表示感谢，我准会继续赶路，不会感到有任何职责去重新向他发问。但是这位赶路人的皱眉和粗犷，却使我坦然自若，因此当他挥手叫我走的时候，我仍然坚守阵地，并且宣布：
But even if it had been the aim of the russians to drive back the french , they could not have made this final effort , because all the russian troops had been routed ; there was not a single part of the army that had not suffered in the battle , and the russians , without being driven from their position , lost one half of their army 但是，即使俄国人的目的是要打退法国人，他们也不可能使出最后一把力，因为所有的俄军都已被击溃，没有哪一个部队在战斗中没受损失，俄国人在坚守阵地中，就损失了一半人马。
When he went over in his own mind all this strange russian campaign , in which not a single victory had been gained , in which not a flag , nor a cannon , nor a corps had been taken in two months , when he looked at the concealed gloom in the faces round him , and heard reports that the russians still held their grounda terrible feeling , such as is experienced in a nightmare , came over him , and all the unlucky contingencies occurred to him that might be his ruin 他默默地回顾这次对俄国奇怪的远征，这次远征没打过一次胜仗，两个月来连一面旗帜一门大炮一批军队都没有缴获或俘虏。他看周围的人们深藏忧郁的面孔，听俄国人仍坚守阵地的报告，于是一种可怕的感觉，有如做了一场噩梦似的感觉，揪住了他的心。他忽然想到可能毁掉他的那些不幸的偶然机会。
