I have often since observed, that he never lost an opportunity for a passage at arms whenever I happened to be present.

从那以后，我经常观察到， 只要我碰巧在场， 他就不会错过交战的机会。

Francis Marion was a shy and modest planter of South Carolina whose sole passage at arms had been a brief but desperate brush with the Indians ten or twelve years earlier.

弗朗西斯·马里恩 (Francis Marion) 是南卡罗来纳州一位害羞而谦虚的种植园主，十年或十二年前，他唯一一次参战是与印第安人短暂而绝望的擦肩而过。