And I've discovered that most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes.

我发现多数的年轻男孩不能接受死板严厉的说教。

Unfortunately he got in the way of the volley and was transfixed by a ramrod: eighteen soldiers had failed to remove their ramrods from the barrels before firing.

大家开枪时，他不巧走到射程之内，被一枝推弹杆射中：有十八名士兵开枪前忘了拿出推弹杆。