Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

  • -- Quentin Crisp 昆汀·奎斯普

永远不要认为敌人敌意的减弱意味着他们已经被征服了。这只是意味着一个国家不再构成威胁。

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In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

回想起来,我意识到威胁在于自我,而不是音乐的有效性。

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

对鲸鱼的真正威胁是捕鲸,它使许多鲸鱼物种濒临灭绝。

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

说谎是有敌意的,而且应该有。

There was hostility surrounding doing my job.

人们对我的工作怀有敌意。