musket
英 美
I hunted with a musket two years ago.
两年前我用滑膛枪打猎。
Every last word, by thunder! 'answered John.' Refuse that, and you've seen the last of me but musket - balls. '.
“句句是实,我赌咒!”约翰答道。“要是你拒绝的话,你就等着吃枪子儿吧,休想再见到我。”
That became musca in Latin, then the diminutive muschetta and ultimately'u2014by now a weapon, not a projectile'u2014musket.
这个词(mice)在拉丁语中写作“musca(苍蝇)”,加上后缀又变成“muschetta”,最后演变成“musket”——滑膛枪,一种兵器而不是弹射装置。
A terrified old woman fixed a mattress in front of her window on two clothes-poles for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry.
一个吓破了胆的老妇人,把一块厚床垫系在两根晾衣服的杆子上挂在窗口外面,用以阻挡流弹。
The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible discharge of musketry.
纵队被迫退却后又在街上密集,他们已没有掩护,但很可怖,他们用骇人的排枪向棱堡还击。