Can you look forward to the future of our country and imagine any state of things in which, with slavery still existing, we should be assured of permanent peace? I cannot.

  • -- Robert Dale Owen 罗伯特·戴尔·欧文

你能展望我们国家的未来,想象在奴隶制仍然存在的情况下,我们应该得到永久和平的保证吗?我不能。

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You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

你问我如果我不高兴当最后的战场,就全国而言,我到目前为止,当然,肯定希望和平,战争结束时,会很高兴,但如果我回答是为我自己,我必须说,我很遗憾地看到战争的结束。

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

如果在众多的争辩中,你曾犹豫和怀疑;如果,当一项巨大的责任出现时,你已经逃避了,害怕向前走以免出错,那又有什么好奇怪的呢?

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

大声的和平宣传使战争似乎迫在眉睫。

I look forward to working out every day.

我期待着每天锻炼。