Experts on the website Revolutionary War Journal explain that firing a musket was complex.

《革命战争杂志》网站的专家解释说，使枪很复杂。

I took out my pipe and laid down my musket to strike the match.

我就把枪放下，掏出烟斗来划了一根火柴。

I'll hold the musket boldly while I think.

我要勇敢地端起枪来，想一想。

There were two more soldiers at the door of the stateroom, and their muskets seemed not to be loaded, for they never fired upon us, and they were shot while trying to fix their bayonets.

另有两个士兵把着官舱的门，他们的火枪似乎没有装火药，因为根本就没向我们开火，他们在打算上刺刀中弹身亡。

By 1780 just two years after Cook's arrival, the chief known as Kamehameha the Big Island began acquiring Advanced Western weapons like cannons and muskets from the British.

1780 年，就在库克抵达两年后，大岛酋长卡米哈米哈大帝开始从英国人那里购买大炮和火枪等先进的西方武器。

I doubt that, friend William; I have no idea of any security against those cannibals but in a regiment of good soldiers, with their muskets and bayonets.

安全？威廉，我的朋友，就那些野蛮食人族来说，我完全不知道还有什么安全可言！除非你带上全副武装的军队！

They did. They leaped over the wall, bayoneted their enemies, smashed skulls with clubbed muskets, and planted the battleflags of the South on Cemetery Ridge.

将士们群起响应。 他们越过后墙，和敌军拼起了刺刀。 霎间，脑浆四溅。 终于，南方邦联的战旗在墓园岭的上空飘扬。

A large crowd gathered around the Bastille with muskets, swords, and other weapons to demand the cannons and gunpowder stored in the prison.

一大群人带着火枪、剑和其他武器聚集在巴士底狱周围，索要监狱里储存的大炮和火药。

Now and again, the quiet was broken sharply by the crack-cracking of musket fire in the last line of defenses.

这寂静有最后防线中的哒哒的毛瑟枪声所打破。

The muskets had a place for the gunpowder called a " pan" .

枪有一个装火药的地方，叫做" pan（旧式枪的火药池）" 。

They viewed dynamite rather as the way in which muskets helped end the domain of feudalism.

他们把炸药看成是终结了封建主义的毛瑟枪一样。

The yet levelled musket shook like a drunkard's arm against the panel; Starbuck seemed wrestling with an angel, but turning from the door, he placed the death-tube in its rack, and left the place.

那支平端着的枪抵着门扇，像醉汉的胳膊一样颤抖不已，斯塔巴克似乎正在和一个天使角力；但是，他还是转身离开了门边，把那致命的枪放回枪架，离开了那个地方。

It was one thing to knock the soldiers over with their muskets in their hands, and it was another to stand by while men were being killed in cold blood.

杀死手执武器的士兵是一回事，对冷酷无情地残杀人而无动于衷则是另一回事。

But to understand the origin of this expression, we have to understand how a musket fired.

但要理解这个表达的起源，我们必须理解枪是如何开火的。

So, the firing of a musket gun is very much a chain reaction – one action leads to another, and another, and another.

所以，枪的发射是一个连锁动作反应—一个动作导致另一个动作，再一个动作，再一个动作。

So, this is our Brown Bess flintlock muskets, all dating from the 1740s.

-所以， 这是我们的 Brown Bess 燧发枪，全部可追溯到 1740 年代。

His men resumed their muskets and fell in.

他的人恢复了他们的步枪，并爱上了。

Caesar's legions would stand no chance against Napoleon's army with their cannons and muskets.

凯撒的军团面对拿破仑的大炮和步枪是毫无胜算的。

Mankind's arsenal has developed from clubs, to spears, to arrows, to muskets.

人类的武器库已经从棍棒发展到长矛、箭、火枪。

I mean, it's been around since muskets and the pirates.

我的意思是，自从步枪和海盗以来，它就已经存在了。