Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

滑铁卢战役很可能是在伊顿公学的操场上打赢的,但后来所有战争的首场战役都在那里输掉了。

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War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

战争……是丑陋和野蛮的,而高贵之处在于这样做不会变得丑陋和野蛮。

War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

战争就是地狱,等待就是地狱,战争就是等待。