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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  • -- Percy Bysshe Shelley 珀西·比西·雪莱

战争是政治家的游戏，是牧师的乐趣，是律师的笑话，是受雇刺客的职业。

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All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

我们所有人都希望看到任何立法计划的细节，如果有立法回应的话，但是我相信，国会有心情尽一切可能赢得这场反恐战争。

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

从他们高兴的表情，你可能以为他们欢迎战争。我见过喜欢邮票、石头和蛇的人，但我想象不出有谁喜欢战争。

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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

我认为，在权力走廊里，这些危险的命令以一种更加模糊的方式下达，在下达给刺客之前，要经过两三个级别的命令。

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

直到末后的王被末后祭司的肠子勒死，人才能得自由。

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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

生活是一个笑话;所有的事情都表明了这一点。我曾经这么想过;但现在我知道了。

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It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

在一个没有法律的地方做律师对我来说毫无意义。

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

真正的快乐在于发现而不是知道。

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I wanted passionately to be a priest.

我热切地想成为一名牧师。

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Jests that give pains are no jests.

给人痛苦的笑话不是笑话。

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I'm a hard headed lawyer.

我是个精明的律师。

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Diligence brings delight.

勤奋带来喜悦。

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