Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

  • -- Stephen E. Ambrose 斯蒂芬·安布罗斯

赢得独立战争、内战或第二次世界大战是我们历史上的转折点,是我们前进的必要条件。

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As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

作为唯一的女性,我能够和前面的警官坐在一起,一手拿着一杯伏特加,一手拿着一根黄瓜。这就是我第一次参加战争的方式。

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

人活着总免不了挨打,挨打;无论如何,他都得在这个世界上挤来挤去,得罪人受辱。

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

世界上一定有比我的过去更重要的事情在发生。

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

艺术和文学的支柱,就像战争的支柱一样,是金钱。