It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

  • -- Elihu Root 伊莱休·鲁特

值得注意的是,每一件避免战争的案例通常都是一种收益,因为它有助于形成一种和平的习惯,而长期持续的社区习惯成为行为的标准。

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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

我的脑子里总是塞满了各种各样的事实,在我看来,这与我在学校里的注意力集中没有多大关系,更多的是由于我贪婪而杂食性的阅读习惯。

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

因为孤立的动物利己主义是一种倾向于保护和改善物种的美德:在任何一种群体中,它都是一种破坏性的恶习。

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

每当我不看飞机的时候,我就会去打社区棒球、足球或类似的运动。

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

人们很容易坐在相对奢侈和平的环境中,对第三世界债务问题高谈阔论。

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

年轻时养成的好习惯至关重要。

I fought for peace in the fifties.

我在五十年代为和平而战。