In Marine Corps basic training, I soon learned that everything we recruits used actually belonged to our drill instructor. For instance, she referred to the stuff in our footlockers as “my trash,” and to the racks we slept in as “my racks.” One time when we were all whispering in the bathroom while making “head calls,” our drill instructor must have overheard us. To our surprise, she suddenly yelled, “Why do I hear voices in my head?”
在海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊基本訓練營我很快就明白了,我們這些新兵用的東西實際上都屬于訓練教官。比如,她把我們鎖柜里的東西都稱為“我的垃圾”;把我們的行軍床稱為“我的行軍床”。有一次,我們都在廁所里小聲地說“悄悄話”的時候被訓練教官聽到了。她突然大喊起來,把我們嚇一跳:“我為什么在我的頭里聽見聲音?”