But these were quiet. Soldiers from both sides climbed out of long trenches dug in the ground.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

Rosenberg is giving us an anecdote from the trenches, and yet it slips very quickly into a sense of fable.

罗宾森给我们呈现战壕中的轶事，它很快成为一个无稽之谈。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He was one of the guys, he was one of the gars, he was one of the guys. He'd been wounded three times, and he was a runner, he carried messages to the trenches, from the generals who were all drinking champagne in Reims, to the front.

他就是那些人中的一员,他就是那些小伙子,他就是那些人中的一员,他负伤三次,他是个传令兵,往战壕里送信,从那些在,兰斯喝香槟的将军直到前线

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

We worked as our fathers did,". Now,the farmers plant their crops closer together and run water through narrow trenches.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10