If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

如果一个国家把自由看得比任何东西都重要,那么它就会失去自由,而具有讽刺意味的是,如果它更看重舒适或金钱,那么它也会失去自由。

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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

感情上的讽刺是一只狗对着月亮吠叫,同时在坟墓上撒尿。

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

当人们在屏幕上快乐时,没有多少讽刺意味。

What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation.

对国家不利的事对国家总是有利的。

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

哪里有工人,哪里就有国家。