不喜欢罗马短剑，太短。

I don't like Gladius. Too short.

youdao

尽管死在罗马士兵的短剑下或者笔者厚重铠甲的中世纪骑士手下的人相对较少，到了现代，战争造成的死亡数字越来越大。

Although relatively few people were killed by Roman soldiers with their shorts swords or by medieval knights in their heavy armor, by modern times the carnage had become general.

youdao

But if that broke, if that wasn't available to him, he could turn to his short sword, which was a thrusting sword, not like the Roman short sword which was double edged and slashing.

但是如果矛断了,他就不能使用矛了,那么他就得使用短剑了,这种短剑也是用来刺的,不像罗马士兵的双刃剑那样用砍的

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