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。

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

坚不可摧是一:它是每一个个体的人,同时也是所有人的共性,因此人类之间存在着不可比拟的不可分割的统一。

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。

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。

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

建立工会是我坚定的信念。

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

大贼带走小贼。