The city is old, out of step with the century, but age only seems to have quickened its elements... Relics from the past continually pierce the present. Some dream of love survives the sandstone apartment houses.

  • -- John Cheever 约翰·契佛

这座城市很古老,与世纪不同步,但岁月似乎只是加快了它的元素……过去的遗迹不断地刺穿现在。有些爱情的梦想在砂岩公寓里依然存在。

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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

多年来,我一直在思考这些问题——既思考如何防止战争,又思考如何在战争发生时战斗、生存和结束战争。

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

天赋并不罕见;拥有它的生存能力。