The army could not have recovered itself any way.From the battle of Borodino and the sacking of Moscow it bore within itself, as it were, the chemical elements of dissolution.

• 这支军队在任何地方都不能恢复元气了，自波罗底诺战役和莫斯科抢劫之后，它本身已给含有腐败的化学特性了。