巨劍

  說(shuō)完大劍，說(shuō)說(shuō)巨劍。

  Those blades long and weighty enough to demand adouble grip are great-swords.

  巨劍的劍體長(zhǎng)而重，必須雙手握持。

  They are infantry swords which cannot be used in asingle-hand.

  巨劍是無(wú)法僅憑單手使用的步兵劍。

  Originally the term "great-sword" , onlymeant a war-sword (long-sword),

  從前，“巨劍”一詞，只稱呼戰(zhàn)劍或長(zhǎng)劍。

  but it has now more or less come to mean a sub-classof those larger long-swords/war-swords that are still not true two-handers.

  不過(guò)現(xiàn)在一般稱呼那些較大的長(zhǎng)劍/劍亞類，這些亞類還不算真正的雙手劍。

  Although they are "two hand" swords,great-swords not are the specialized weapons of later two-handed swords.

  雖然這些亞類是雙手握持的劍，但這時(shí)它還沒(méi)有分化成專門的雙手劍。

  They are the swords that are antecedents to the evenlarger Renaissance versions.

  他們是文藝復(fù)興時(shí)期更大的劍的前身。

  Great-swords are also the weapons often depicted invarious German sword manuals.

  巨劍常出現(xiàn)于德國(guó)劍譜中。

  Whereas other long-swords could be used on horsebackand some even with shields, great swords however were infantry weapons only.

  其他長(zhǎng)劍可以在馬上使用，有些甚至可以配盾牌使用。然而巨劍僅作為步兵武器。

  Their bladesmight be flat and wide or later on, more narrow and hexagonal or diamondshaped.

  巨劍的劍體平而寬，后來(lái)出現(xiàn)了劍體橫截面窄的，六邊形或菱形的巨劍。

  These larger swords capable of facing heavier weaponssuch as pole-arms and larger axes were devastating against lighter armors.

  巨劍能夠?qū)股碇p甲而裝備重兵器(如長(zhǎng)桿武器和大斧)的士兵。

  Long,two-handed swords with narrower, flat hexagonal blades and thinner tips (suchas the Italian "spadone") were a response to plate-armor.

  后來(lái)出現(xiàn)的巨劍，劍體長(zhǎng)且具有較窄的扁平六角形劍體橫截面和較薄的劍尖。甚至能用于對(duì)抗板甲士兵。

  Against plate armor such rigid, narrow, and sharplypointed swords are not used in the same chop and cleave manner as with flatter,wider long-swords and great swords.

  這種剛性，細(xì)銳的巨劍。并不像平而寬的長(zhǎng)劍和一般的巨劍一樣劈砍攻擊。

  Instead, theyare handled with tighter movements that emphasize their thrusting points andallow for greater use of the hilt.

  它劍術(shù)緊湊，注重劍柄靈巧運(yùn)動(dòng)，注重劍尖突刺攻擊。

  Those of the earlier parallel-edged shape are knownmore as war-swords, while later the thicker, tapering, sharply pointed formwere more often called bastard-swords.

  早期平行劍刃的劍一般稱為war-sword戰(zhàn)劍，而后來(lái)較厚的，細(xì)銳，錐形的劍更常稱為bastard-sword混種劍。

  One type oflong German sword, the "Rhenish Langenschwert", from the Rhenish cityof Cologne, had a blade of some 4 feet and an enormous grip of some 14 to 16inches long, not including the pommel.

  萊茵河邊的科隆市，有一種長(zhǎng)的德國(guó)劍，叫"Rhenish Langen schwert"，劍刃達(dá)1.22m，劍柄達(dá)950px(不含配重球)。

  嚴(yán)格起來(lái)，這里的巨劍并不是老賊游戲里的巨劍，游戲里的巨劍是嘎子劍。