I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

  • -- Sextus Julius Frontinus 弗朗提努斯

我将无视所有关于战争机器的新著作的想法,因为战争机器的发明已经到了极限,我对它的改进已不抱任何希望。

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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

我不认为有任何一种激动能像发明家看到大脑的某些创造逐渐走向成功时那样穿过人类的心脏。这种情绪会使人忘记食物、睡眠、朋友、爱情以及一切。

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

思想可能会随波逐流,但不会随波逐流。 我得去拿。我知道没有任何工作的体力或脑力能与之相比 无中生有的想法带来的令人心碎的痛苦。

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

为了防止战争,我夜以继日地工作了十二年,但我做不到。北方疯狂而盲目,不让我们管理自己,于是战争爆发了。

Everything is possible! Your dreams! Your ideas! Your inventions! Your vision! Never let anyone tell you "You can't!"

一切皆有可能!你的梦想!你的想法!你的发明!你的视力!永远不要让别人告诉你“你不行!”

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

战胜国先胜后战,战败国先战后求。

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

没有诗意的想法;只有诗意的话语。