It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

  • -- Wilfred Burchett 伯切特

有必要用我所能调动的一切权威来吓唬日军的营长,说我是正式来的,是为了确保投降条件得到遵守,战俘的生活条件立即得到改善。

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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

一个地方——一个房间、一座建筑或一座城镇——的生活模式越多,它作为一个整体就越有生命力,它发出的光芒越多,它就越有自我维持的火焰,这是一种没有名字的品质。

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

一个人所能做的最困难的事就是从自己的悬崖上摔下来。

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.

准备好迎接死亡是生活的一大秘密。