While masses of armies, pinned to the forests by the Dunajec and the Raab, stood under a rain of shells, and artillery of heavy calibre was tearing to pieces whole companies and burying them in the Carpathians, and while the hprizons on all the battlefields blazed with burning villages and towns, Lieutenant Lukáš and Švejk went through an unpleasant idyll with the lady who had run away from her husband and had now made herself mistress of the house.
Dunaiets eta Rab ibaien ondoko basoetan ezarritako tropak granada-euripean zeuden bitartean, kalibre handiko kanoiek Karpatoetako eskuadroi osoak txikitu eta lurperatzen zituzten bitartean, guda-leku guztien horizonteetan suak hartutako herri eta hiriak antzeman zitezkeen bitartean, Lukax tenienteak eta Xveikek idilio desatsegina zuten senarrari ihes egin eta orain etxeko lanetan ziharduen damarekin.