1. The army was officered by brave men.
这支军队是由勇敢的人指挥的。
2. It is a difficult thing for a hundred men to do something together; it is a much more difficult thing for a hundred thousand men to manoeuvre without getting in each other's way; but when a million men are to be transported to a certain spot, equipped, officered, fed, and expected to execute a complicated attack with efficiency and dispatch, nothing short of a most complicated organization can even put such an army into a field, and nothing short of years of practice can possibly make it efficient.
让一百个人一起去做同一件事情是困难的；让成百上千人进行调遣还不能互相碍事就更加困难了；而当需要将一百万人运送到某个地点，进行装备，指挥，补给，并指望他们有效执行复杂的攻势和部署之时，只有最复杂的组织能将这支军队投入战场，也只有数年的操练可能使它变得高效。
3. The Germans realize that a successful war must be prosecuted by a highly organized machine, equipped with exceedingly expensive apparatus, officered by men whose training must necessarily consume years, during which they and the troops they are instructing must be supported by the State and allowed to devote their whole time to learning the game of war.
德国人意识到，一场成功的战争需要用一台高效组织的机器来执行，这台机器必须配备极为宝贵的仪器，并由历经数年时间训练出来的人员操纵，在旷日持久的训练中，他们和他们麾下的军队必须由国家来供养，这样他们能够将全部时间都投入到研习战争的艺术上来。
4. Her navy, also, if not numerous, contains several first-class war ships; officered by men well trained in European schools; and she has, finally a splendid mercantile marine, the quality of which can be best gauged by the announcement that the sixteen steamships just chartered for the transport of troops to Corea have been taken from a single native company.
日本海军虽说阵容不算庞大，也配备了几艘顶级战舰，由受过欧洲军校良好训练的军官领航。日本有杰出的海上贸易力量，一家当地公司宣称已租出十六艘顶级蒸汽船以载运军队到朝鲜。
5. All this might seem an unlikely background for an elite fighting unit; yet when the guard did take the field, they appear to have been well enough trained and officered to acquit themselves well.
所有这些背景似乎无法产生精锐作战部队，然而，一旦禁卫军开上战场，却因为训练有素号令严明而获得出色评价。