All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

所有的战争都是愚蠢的,非常昂贵,也非常有害。

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

最近,一些国家被迫借了数十亿美元用于战争;从来没有一个国家在很大程度上借钱用于教育……没有一个国家富裕到既能支付战争又能支付文明的费用。我们必须做出选择;我们不能两者兼得。

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

克林顿的骗局是如此巧妙和根深蒂固,以至于不可能知道它从哪里结束和真正的比尔克林顿开始。这构成了一种政治天才。

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

没有任何其他特殊资格的人,除了他们生活中的戏剧性事件之外,往往会突然被提拔到重要的政治职位上。

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

游击战是少数人发动的战争,但又依赖于许多人的支持。