《黑暗之魂3》刀、劍武器原型及歷史出處解析

  巨劍

  說完大劍，說說巨劍。

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

  巨劍的劍體長而重，必須雙手握持。

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

  巨劍是無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.

  不過現在一般稱呼那些較大的長劍/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，但這時它還沒有分化成專門的雙手劍。

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

  他們是文藝復興時期更大的劍的前身。

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

  巨劍常出現于德國劍譜中。

  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，后來出現了劍體橫截面窄的，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.

  巨劍能夠對抗身著輕甲而裝備重兵器(如長桿武器和大斧)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.

  后來出現的巨劍，劍體長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，細銳的巨劍。并不像平而寬的長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.

  它劍術緊湊，注重劍柄靈巧運動，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，而后來較厚的，細銳，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，有一種長的德國劍，叫"Rhenish Langen schwert"，劍刃達1.22m，劍柄達950px(不含配重球)。

  嚴格起來，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。