What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

战争荒谬而可怕的地方在于,那些没有个人恩怨的人应该被训练成冷血地自相残杀。

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边,他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵,而我却没有和他争吵过。

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

没有时间了:就像许多战时的表达一样,这个表达也有了充分的意义。

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

我们写作是因为我们相信人类的精神不能被驯服,也不应该被训练。

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

我是一个自由式舞者;我没有训练。

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

战争是政治的终极工具。

They play till they quarrel.

他们玩到吵架为止。