【9月16日】看軍聞學英語

■泰戈爾

原文：

The U.S. Army's notoriously difficult Ranger School has added a new tool during its training course. Ranger Class 06-26 recently became the first to undergo training with bayonets, a knife or blade attached to the muzzle of a rifle, as another weapon for use in face-to-face combat.

"The Bayonet Assault Course allows us to introduce a level of grit, a level of violence of action, very rapidly," said Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Hartung, the senior enlisted soldier at the brigade that runs Ranger School, in a video released by the Army and reviewed by Military.com.

The term bayonet is named after the French city of Bayonne. According to the Dictionary of World Origins, bayonets allow a firearm to double as a spear.

Bayonets were supposedly first used by Basques in the 17th century, and continuing into the early 20th century, where they were used as an infantry melee weapon, usually when soldiers charge at another group in a mass formation, also known as a human wave attack.

In contemporary times, bayonets are considered a primitive weapon of last resort and are rarely used in combat.

中譯：

美國陸軍以嚴苛聞名的突擊兵學校，在其訓練課程中加入了一項新工具。突擊兵 06-26 班次最近成為第一批接受刺刀（一種安裝在步槍槍口上的刀刃）訓練的班隊，將其作為面對面肉搏戰的另一種武器。

負責管理突擊兵學校的旅級部隊高階士官長哈通，在陸軍發布並經《Military.com》檢視的影片中表示：「刺刀突擊課程能讓我們非常迅速地引入一定程度的鬥志與『行動暴力』。」

「刺刀」一詞源於法國城市巴約訥。根據《世界語源字典》記載，刺刀能讓火器兼具長矛的功能。

據信刺刀最早是由巴斯克人在 17 世紀開始使用，並一直延續到 20 世紀初，當時它被用作步兵的近戰武器，通常用於士兵以密集編隊向另一群敵軍發動衝鋒，也就是俗稱的「人海戰術」。

在現代，刺刀被視為非到萬不得已才使用的原始武器，鮮少在實際戰鬥中登場。

- 關鍵軍語 -

※violence of action：迅猛行動

※human wave attack：人海戰術