light cavalry

基本解释

Its light favored Blucher's ferocious pursuit, betrayed the traces of the fugitives, delivered up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the massacre.
月色给布吕歇尔的猛烈追击以许多方便，替他指出逃兵的动向，把那浩劫中的人流交付给贪戾的普鲁士骑兵，促成了那次屠杀。
He is said to have adapted the long cavalry pantaloons favoured by the 10th Light Dragoons as a replacement for the knee-length breeches and stockings that were then commonplace.
据说，他曾采纳了当时广受欢迎的第十轻装龙骑兵的兵服样式取代及膝马裤和长筒袜。
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The first two classes provided the cavalry; the third had to serve as heavy infantry; the fourth served either as light infantry without armor or in the fleet for which they probably received wages.
前两个阶级提供骑兵，第三阶级提供重装步兵，第四阶级提供不穿甲胄的轻装步兵或在海军中服务，大概还领饷银。