It took me weeks of internal thinking to try to reconcile the good reasons we had to assist that family and the soldier of fortune he became.
我花了好几个星期来消化这件事情我们帮助他的家庭的初衷是好的,然而他却变成了雇佣兵。
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Hoplites, the heavily armed infantrymen who formed the core of Greek armies of this period, were much in demand as soldiers of fortune, and many found employment in non-Greek armies—not infrequently fighting their fellow Greeks.
Bond remembered cold, dedicated, chess-playing Russians; brilliant, neurotic Germans; silent, deadly, anonymous men from Central Europe; the people in his own Service-the double-firsts, the gay soldiers of fortune, the men who counted life well lost for a thousand a year.