1.Andre Jaffre was an 18-year-old gunner on the French battleship, Bretagne.

18 岁的德烈·杰弗雷是法国战列舰布列塔尼上一名炮手。

2.I'm the gunner. James is the loader, okay? We followed the specifications exactly.

我是枪手，James 负责装载，吗？我们完按照每一个步骤。

3.Oh drat! said the old gunner in his anger. That rascal must be covered with six-inch armor plate!

真怪！老炮手暴跳如雷，说，这混蛋的身上一定有一层六英寸厚的铁甲！

4.And he was the lead turret gunner in the lead Humvee.

他是领头悍马车上的领头炮塔炮手。机翻

5.I wouldn't try and steal opportunities from other people, 'cause I don't wanna be a gunner.

我不会尝试从其他人那里窃取机会，因为我不想成为枪手。机翻

6.One of the gunners slid my automatic across the desk.

一名枪手将我的自动手枪滑过桌子。机翻

7.You take your seat at the gunner’s station and strap in.

你在炮手站带。机翻

8.The heavily laden and slow-moving  British troops stood no chance as the German machine gunners began to fire.

当德国机枪手开始射击时，满载而缓慢的英军没有机会。机翻

9.The German machine gunners shot the few  dogs that did run out at enemy lines.

德国机枪手射杀了逃到敌后的几条狗。机翻

10.Like other gunners, the writer must cultivate patience, working many covers to bring down one partridge.

和其他枪手一样，作家必须培养耐心，通过多次掩护才能击落一只鹧鸪。机翻

11.And a gunner's a person who tries to, put other people down, or get themselves ahead at all costs.

枪手是一个不惜一切代价试图让别人失望或让自己领先的人。机翻

12.A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

作家就是枪手，有时盲目地等待着什么东西到来，有时则在乡村漫步希望能吓到什么东西。机翻

13.In July 1940, Robert Philpott was a gunner on British battleship HMS Hood when it was ordered to open fire on French sailors, men who been allies just weeks earlier.

1940 年 7 月，罗伯特·菲尔波特是英国战舰胡德号上的一名炮手，当时这艘战舰奉命向几周前还是盟友的法国水手开火。

14.The bazooka was not without its faults, and  occasionally, the rocket would get stuck in the tube, meaning the gunner was shouldering a  live bomb.

火箭筒也不是没有缺点，偶尔火箭会卡在管子里，这意味着炮手肩扛着一枚实弹。机翻

15.It was intended to have a crew of 27 men: 1 commander, 2 drivers, 1 signaler, 1 artillery officer, 12 artillery men, 8 machine gunners, and 2 mechanics.

1名指挥官，2名驾驶员，1名通信员，1名炮兵军官，12名炮兵，8名机枪手和2名机械师。

16.Calm of eye, cool of feature, an old gray-bearded gunner-I can see him to this day-approached the cannon, put it in position, and took aim for a good while.

一位胡子花白的老炮手—他现在仍然活现在我眼前—眼光镇定，面容冷静，走到大炮面前，把炮位摆，瞄准了很久的时间。

17.Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly whimsical than that of gunners using science to shatter men's bodies while, close at hand, surgeons use it to restore them?

炮兵利用科学毁坏人的身体、而外科医生就在附近用科学抢救被炮兵毁坏的人体，还有什么情景比这更可怕、更怪诞的吗？

18.Ideally, two people would operate the bazooka: a loader carried the rounds and loaded from the  back end, and a gunner aimed and fired the weapon.

理想情况，由两个人操作巴祖卡：一名装填手携带子弹从后端装填，一名炮手瞄准发射武器。机翻

19.Evans could swing his little sixteen-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky.

埃文斯可以像近距离空战中的机尾射手那样把5厘米小型望远镜转来转去，用几秒钟时间就可以瞄准天空中任何一个特定的点。

20.A lasgun-shield explosion was a dangerous variable, could be more powerful than atomics, could kill only the gunner and his shielded target.

激光枪盾牌爆炸是一个危险的变量，可能比原子弹更强大，只能杀死炮手和他的盾牌目标。机翻