In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

  • -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃

在这个国家,时不时地杀一个海军上将来鼓励其他人是一件好事。

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

对历史学家和其他人来说,能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的,无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的,以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

我爸爸以前常说我太大了,不能骑马,又太小了,连一辆马车都拉不动。

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

“认识你自己”是句好话,但不是在所有情况下都适用。在很多情况下,说“认识别人”会更好。

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

在战争中,你只能被杀一次,但在政治上,你可以被杀很多次。