I saw the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiers plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts,...

我曾看到大批头脑愚蠢，训练有素，唯命是从而又凶暴残忍的德国士兵，像一群螺虫在蠕蠕行进。

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More than once, in my early years here, I saw Michaels erupt like a volcano when he thought the staff was getting complacent or had fallen into a dull routine.

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