The general gave the word to execute the deserters .

将军下令处决逃兵。

Procuring their rifles, they opened fire in a leisurely manner upon the deserters

他们拿起来福枪,懒洋洋地向逃亡者开火。

In the West the number of deserters , or at least of those who gave themselves up as quickly as possible in the wake of the British-American advances, became staggering

在西线,开小差的人,至少是在英美军队一挺进就尽快投降的人,正在急剧地增加。

||1:All those interviewed have tales of horror.||2:Just about all of them witness summary executions: of enemy soldiers (mainly Iranians), of Kurds, of Kuwaitis, of Iraqi deserters , of senior Iraqi officers who are deemed to have been guilty of losing battles or even merely of retreating when they should have stayed to fight and die.||3:General Sachet is ordered to oversee such executions.||4:A sergeant witnesses an Iraqi, who was alleged to have abused a woman in Kuwait, hauled up by a crane to be shot by fellow Iraqi soldiers.||5:The same happens to an Iraqi colonel caught smuggling gold.||6:Kuwaiti prisoners have their ears nailed to a plank of wood.

||1:所有被采访者都经历过恐怖的事情。||2:几乎所有人都目睹过处决现场，被处决的有敌军（主要是伊朗人），有库尔德人，有科威特人，有伊军的逃兵，也有因为打败仗或者因为本该战斗到死却撤退而被认定有罪的伊拉克高级将领。||3:萨西尔将军受命监督了这些处决过程。||4:一个伊拉克人被指控曾在科威特对一妇女施虐，一位中士亲眼见到他被吊在起重机上然后伊拉克士兵开枪把他击毙。||5:一位走私黄金被抓的伊拉克上校也有同样的遭遇。||6:科威特战俘的耳朵则被钉在厚厚的木板上。

Historians now think the crew, whose numbers had diminished inprison through sickness and a suicide, were deserters .

历史学家现在认为，这些船员是逃兵，在押期间，由于疾病和自杀，他们的人数有所减少。

Many Soviet army deserters pinned their draft cards to a defaced poster of President Mikhail Gorbachev.

许多苏联的逃兵都把他们对戈尔巴乔夫的诅咒卡片贴在这面墙上。

A little like executing deserters in war, such brutal treatment can serve as a visceral lesson to others.

这有点像在战争中处决逃兵，残忍的处置方式可以对其他人形成心理威慑。

party deserters

叛党者

To soothe the deserters

抚慰流亡

to recruit deserters and traitors

招降纳叛