What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things, which enable its citizens to live, but the things, which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  • -- Simone Weil 西蒙娜·韦伊

一个国家所谓的重要经济利益,不是使其公民能够生存的东西,而是使其能够发动战争的东西。汽油比小麦更有可能成为国际冲突的原因。

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No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

没有时间了:就像许多战时的表达一样,这个表达也有了充分的意义。

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

婚礼队伍的音乐总是让我想起士兵们上战场时的音乐。