The merchant marines don't fight. They deliver supplies on ships.

商船队不参战的。他们只是负责船上的补给。

No one with my father's name was ever a merchant marine.

有我爸爸名字的都不是商船。

He...he was a merchant marine, and his platoon was killed in the battle of Hanoi?

他...他是一个商船队的船员，他们在河内战役的时候被杀了？

I chose to train as a merchant marine because it gives me the chance to provide for my family.

我选择成为一名商船船员，因为这给了我养家的机会。

His father, Alfred, was a merchant marine and was absent at John's birth, as he would be for much of John's childhood.

他的父亲阿尔弗雷德是个商船船员，约翰出生时他并不在场，而且约翰大部分的童年时期也未见他的身影。

Merchant marine ships carried war supplies to American and allied soldiers. For Ellison, the war was a time of learning and trying to write.

商船向美国和盟国士兵运送战争物资。对埃里森来说，战争是一个学习和写作的时期。

They were patriots, like my grandfather who served in Patton’s Army—soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coast guard, merchant marines—and the women of the WACs and the WAVES and every branch.

他们是爱国的英雄，我外公曾在巴顿将军麾下服役，与他一样还有很多士兵、水手、飞行员、海军陆战队员、海岸警卫队员、商船船员，还有陆军妇女队、海军妇女队和其它部队的众多女性。

Switzerland does have a natural way to access the world's oceans. The answer was the river Rhine in the port city of Basel, which became the home port of the Swiss merchant marine.

瑞士确实拥有进入世界海洋的自然方式。答案是港口城市巴塞尔的莱茵河，这里成为瑞士商船的母港。