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.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

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。

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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.

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。

I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

我认为这让五角大楼的人有点紧张,因为他们知道化学制剂和环境因素会对未来造成如此大的破坏。

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

例如,根据日内瓦公约,战俘只需要提供姓名、军衔和序列号,不能从合作中获得任何好处。

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

记日记的一个好处是,你会清楚地意识到自己不断遭受的变化,这让人安心。

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。

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

我想我们已经为这部剧建立了一个惯例,让我们可以做任何我们想做的事情。

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

同样值得一问的是,日内瓦的严格限制在反恐战争中是否有意义。