Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

  • -- William Hague 威廉海牙

世界历史上很少有冲突根据已公布的时间表得到令人满意的结束,因为你在对付你的对手时失去了一切灵活性。

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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

根据几十亿年前的标准模型一些量子涨落,也许是物质密度稍微低一点,也许就在我们现在所在的位置,导致我们的星系开始在这里坍塌。

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

我试着每天四次坐在打字机前,哪怕只有五分钟,写三个句子。

He that refuseth praise the first time does it because he would have it the second.

第一次不赞美人的,是因为他想要第二次赞美。

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

与网络高管打交道就像被鸭子咬死一样。

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

据我妻子说,我的词汇使用广泛而多样。