I hear people talking in an airy way of throwing modern armies ashore here and there as if they were bales of goods to be dumped on a beach and forgotten.

• 我听到人们轻松地谈到把现代化部队随意送到岸上各处，仿佛他们是一捆捆的货物，扔到海滩上，就可以不再过问了。