" No, Ma'm, we got a million miles of breastworks 'round this town" .

" 不，太太，我们在这个城市周围修筑了百万英里围墙呢。"

" Yes, Ma'm. That's what we're doing. We're the last of the men from the breastworks, 'bout a mile north from here."

“是，太太。正是这样，我们是最后一批防御工事中撤出，一英里地方。”

The room had been arranged with a view to the dancing, the large oak table having been moved back till it stood as a breastwork to the fireplace.

屋里布置全是为了跳舞而准备，那张橡木桌子已被往后移到壁炉，站在那儿仿佛成了壁炉胸墙。

When the Yankees, swarming out of the hills, came upon them, the Southern troops were waiting for them, entrenched behind breastworks, batteries planted, bayonets gleaming, even as they had been at Dalton.

等到那些乱山中涌出军向他们起时，南军已经修筑好深沟固垒，架设排炮，亮出刺刀，就像在多尔顿那样严阵以待了。