If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

  • -- Patrick J. Kennedy 帕特里克J.肯尼迪

如果发生恐怖袭击,人们的反应将决定这次袭击是一场悲剧,还是一场全面的灾难。

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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

他们会毫不含糊地告诉你,如果我们在这个国家的任何地方发生化学或生物攻击或核攻击,他们今天都没有准备好应对,这是非常紧迫的。

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

如果我在多伦多,我肯定会在这次袭击中丧生。在我通常睡觉的房间里,火焰、烟雾和煤烟会让我丧命。

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

必须记住,生活的悲剧不在于没有达到你的目标。人生的悲剧就在于没有目标。

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

尽管我们可能希望有一个新的开始,但我们中的一些人却拒绝这样做,好像我们是在向灾难迈出第一步。

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

悲剧使我一头扎进了现实。我以前见过的一切现在看来都不一样了,连大自然也不一样了。

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

只有灾难才能遵循分裂的忠告和相反的意愿。