Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

联盟-在国际政治中,两个小偷的联盟,他们的手深深地插在对方的口袋里,不能单独抢劫第三个人。

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The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

首先,也是最重要的是,要强调联盟关系的持久性,尤其是与欧洲的联盟关系。欧洲与我们有共同的价值观和利益,即使它在具体政策上与我们意见相左。

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

事实上,在我看来,跨越国界建立战略联盟以治疗世界贫困人口中的艾滋病毒,是跨越日益扩大的鸿沟团结起来的最后巨大希望之一。

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

盗贼尊重财产权。他们只是希望财产成为他们的财产,以便他们能够更完全地尊重它。

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

爱不仅仅是两种生物之间的结合,它是两种精神之间的结合。

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

为一个阶级的利益向社会征税不是保护,而是掠夺。

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

文学……是痛苦与形式本能的结合。

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

大贼带走小贼。