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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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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。

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

婚姻是这样一种联盟:一个男人关着窗户睡不着，一个女人开着窗户睡不着。

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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。

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I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

我宁愿建议设立一个类似于我们在万国邮政联盟中所设的局。

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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。

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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

如果一个永久的结合变得更加完美，而不是不可分割，那么还有什么是不可分割的呢?

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The great thieves lead away the little thief.

大贼带走小贼。

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