古德明英語軍事小故事：書 到 用 時 方 恨 少 (中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰爭。書 到 用 時 方 恨 少
during the defence of the lucknow residency in the indian mutiny of 1857, all kinds of unusual items were used to construct barricades. some works of great literature, complete with leather bindings, served to hold the sepoys at bay. on one occasion just one hundred pages of a copy of lardner's encyclopaedia stopped a musket ball, while byron's complete poems, although suffering complete destruction in the process, stopped a cannonball. apparently, so impressive were the defensive qualities of such heavy reading that financial commissioner martin gubbins wished that every door could be protected by books. on the other hand, unbound oriental manuscripts, at the house of the french merchant depratt, proved incapable of stopping musket shots and were consumed by fire.
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