I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

  • -- Edwin M. Stanton 埃德温·M·斯坦顿

我比这个国家的任何人都更了解格兰特将军。研究他是我的责任,我日日夜夜都在研究他,当我看到他的时候,当我没有看到他的时候。现在我把我所知道的告诉你们,他不能治理这个国家。

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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

但当我去广岛,开始研究或者只是听人们描述他们的工作时,很明显他们一直在谈论死亡,谈论他们周围的人的死亡,谈论他们自己对死亡的恐惧。

I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.

我一直在做很多唱歌的研究,我想录一张包含我所有旧战马的专辑,同时出版一本歌曲集。

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

多疑的人相信的比怀疑的多。它相信一种可怕的、无法根除的邪恶潜伏在每个人身上。

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

我从来没有接受过我已经完了的想法。我想从来没有一个曾经是明星的人能做到这一点。

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

我学会了模仿那种谈论诗歌的人。我想这来自于教学。

I have a beer belly.

我有啤酒肚。