Every last word, by thunder! 'answered John.' Refuse that, and you've seen the last of me but musket - balls. '.(“句句是實，我賭咒！”約翰答道。“要是你拒絕的話，你就等著吃槍子兒吧，休想再見到我。”)

Admiral Nelson's encounter as a plucky 14-year-old midshipman fighting only with the butt of his musket is surely a myth, but others are true.(納爾遜海軍上將時為一名勇敢的14歲的少尉候補官，他僅用滑膛槍托與遭遇的北極熊搏斗的故事可以肯定是個神話，不過其他的故事倒是真的。)

Musket shots could be heard below at the spot where the lines were closest.(在山下，在軍使走過的地方，可以聽見砰砰的槍聲。)

This principle was famously demonstrated by Galileo Galilei some 400 years ago when he simultaneously dropped cannon and musket balls, and balls made of gold, silver and wood, from the Tower of Pisa.(這一法則是在大約400年前，由伽利略?伽利雷那個著名的比薩斜塔實驗所證明的，當時他在塔頂同時釋放球型炮彈和毛瑟槍子彈，以及由金、銀、木頭制成的小球。)

Not to the soldier who for the munificent compensation of $16 per month shoulders his musket and goes into the trench, there to shed his blood and to die if necessary;(不是給士兵帶來好運，他為每個月十六美元的慷慨補償扛著步槍進入戰壕，獻出鮮血甚至生命；)

He's on more solid footing though when he reports that two kinds of mountings were tried to affix a bayonet to a musket; ring mounting and a socket bayonet.(不過，在描述刺刀固定方式的時候，他就有理有據多了——以前，人們曾經嘗試用兩種方式將刺刀固定到火槍上：附環固定以及插座式刺刀。)

I hunted with a musket two years ago.(兩年前我用滑膛槍打獵。)

A youth who can't hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time, at a hundred.(三刻鐘內用加特林機槍在三十碼處不能擊中一個教堂的年輕人，卻可以站在百碼開外，舉起一把空膛的舊火槍，趟趟把祖母當靶子擊倒。)

That became musca in Latin, then the diminutive muschetta and ultimately—by now a weapon, not a projectile—musket.(這個詞（mice）在拉丁語中寫作“musca（蒼蠅）”，加上后綴又變成“muschetta”，最后演變成“musket”——滑膛槍，一種兵器而不是彈射裝置。)