Medieval siege 中世纪攻城战-10

Come and take a look at the rocks over here. It just pulverized the stone on the inside.

It confirmed what we came here to prove, didn't it? We had a lovely hit smacking² in the middle and it smashed it and it's busted³ it right through to the back. So it's quite obvious if you got one of these trebuchets and you got a castle like this and you've got plenty of time to shoot it, you are going to knock it into a powder. We can reduce this to rubble⁴.

Intoxicated⁵ with success, the timber framers bid adieu to the highlands. But the next morning. Renaud is heartened to find that he's not been completely abandoned.

You know if you put your safe chain on, ....
Ed Levin and a handful of the Americans have decided⁶ to stay on in Scotland to help finish the job.
...the sling⁷...
I'm sure it's a good miss.
No,it's linked to the second...
Biggest concern is whether the throwing arm has been fatally weakened at the point where the main axle passes through it.
To avoid stressing the arm, Renaud decides to only partially⁸ load his counterweight using 4 tons of sand in the 12-ton-capacity box, but there are risks to this approach.
We are all suitably cautious in having the 250-pound sandstone ball end up in the castle wall, rather than in the loch or drop down on the machine or any available places it has historically been known to go.
Come on ,come on, come on...
Nobody knows quite what they are doing, so that's what makes it fun.
A moment of birth.
And terror.
Yeah well birth is usually accompanied by terror.
Now we are ready for shoots. It's getting me nervous.
Three, two, one, fire in the hole!
The heavy ball and relatively⁹ light counterweight result in the missile landing dangerously close to the trebuchet.
Well, yeah, I mean we knew that there wasn't enough weight in really, didn't we? We just experiment.
If the counterweight is not so heavy, we must put two bags more.Two tons.
Of sand.
Yes, of sand,yes.
Two more tons of sand are added.
I don't think it's enough weight for it to go really well yet. This machine wants a lot of weight, Ten, twelve tons probably to make it go properly. Renaud thinks if we keep putting a little bits in, he might just get there without busting¹⁰ the axle which is natural, of course, because it's his machine. Fair enough.
We are going to get the good shot.
I'm sure, sure, sure.

words to chew:
1/pulverize: To break a food down to powder by crushing or grinding.
eg: pulverize the grains ; pulverize the rebellion

2/aduie: French, goodbye
bid aduie to: bid farewell to

3/loch: French, lake

1 pulverized   

adj.[医]雾化的，粉末状的v.将…弄碎( pulverize的过去式和过去分词 )；将…弄成粉末或尘埃；摧毁；粉碎

参考例句：

• We pulverized the opposition. 我们彻底击败了对手。
• He pulverized the opposition with the force of his oratory. 他能言善辩把对方驳得体无完肤。 来自辞典例句

2 smacking   

活泼的，发出响声的，精力充沛的

参考例句：

• He gave both of the children a good smacking. 他把两个孩子都狠揍了一顿。
• She inclined her cheek,and John gave it a smacking kiss. 她把头低下，约翰在她的脸上响亮的一吻。

3 busted   

adj. 破产了的，失败了的，被降级的，被逮捕的，被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• You are so busted! 你被当场逮住了！
• It was money troubles that busted up their marriage. 是金钱纠纷使他们的婚姻破裂了。

4 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

5 intoxicated   

喝醉的，极其兴奋的

参考例句：

• She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
• They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉，东南西北全然不辨。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 sling   

vt.扔；悬挂；n.挂带；吊索，吊兜；弹弓

参考例句：

• The boy discharged a stone from a sling.这个男孩用弹弓射石头。
• By using a hoist the movers were able to sling the piano to the third floor.搬运工人用吊车才把钢琴吊到3楼。

8 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

9 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

10 busting   

打破，打碎( bust的现在分词 )； 突击搜查（或搜捕）； （使）降级，降低军阶

参考例句：

• Jim and his wife were busting up again yesterday. 吉姆和他的妻子昨天又吵架了。
• He figured she was busting his chops, but it was all true. 他以为她在捉弄他，其实完全是真的。