How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  • -- Neville Chamberlain 张伯伦

我们应该在这里挖战壕,戴上防毒面具,因为在一个遥远的国家,我们一无所知的人们之间发生了一场争吵。

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I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

我在战壕里;我尽我所能做到最好。话虽如此,我所做的事情与外部世界融合的方式却让我着迷。因为它起起落落。人们的兴趣和理解,它一直在变化。

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

人们对生命的尊重要高得多,无论是私下争吵还是通过司法程序,对待生命的态度都比以往严肃得多。

Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth.

争名夺利,急功近利,争名夺利,甚至在炮口上也要找泡沫。

You cannot hook trout? Try digging clams.

你不会钓鳟鱼?试着挖蛤蜊。

Someone is digging your grave right now.

有人正在挖你的坟墓。