The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

  • -- Peter Benenson 彼得·本嫩森

蜡烛不是为我们而燃烧,而是为所有那些我们没能从监狱里救出的人而燃烧,他们在入狱的路上中弹,被拷打,被绑架,“失踪”了。这就是蜡烛的作用。

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The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

五角大楼表示,这些囚犯是根据日内瓦公约被关押的,当然我对此并不放心,但我无法证明这是错的;所以我们更清楚了。

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

当我被迫和一群囚犯在一起时,我所能做的就是克制自己不去攻击他们。