A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
士兵
Soldier
I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
很抱歉我六个月没进监狱，我知道你可以随时来找我。
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
我不认为我能成为一名步兵。我不知道我是否能很好地接受命令。我有点懒。
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
然而，自我克制和自律将被认为是优秀士兵的杰出品质。
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
世上只有三种人值得尊敬:牧师、军人和诗人。去了解，去杀戮，去创造。
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
年轻人，你知道士兵是什么吗?他是那个使文明的人们蔑视战争成为可能的人。
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
每个公民都应该当兵。这是希腊人和罗马人的情况，而且必须是每一个自由国家的情况。
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
任何一个看过战场上垂死士兵呆滞的眼神的人都会在开战前仔细思考。
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
作为一名士兵，我请求你们不要让我感到耻辱，因为我看到我的团行进着去迎接敌人，而我却不知道它的危险。
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
虽然我的职业是军人，但我从来没有对战争有过任何好感，我也从来没有提倡过战争，除非把它当作一种和平的手段。
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
任何作战指挥官都不应该给士兵分配可以由计算机、远程传感器或无人机完成的任务。
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
在战场上，军方承诺不留下任何士兵。作为一个国家，让我们的承诺，当他们回家时，我们不留下任何退伍军人。
When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.
当我把它拉出来的时候，它的头还留在我的腿上，那里仍然是静止的。我把箭拔出来时，箭柄上有几英寸的血。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
如果我必须成为一名军人，我必须是一名优秀的军人，其他任何事情都是不可想象的。
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
当这场悲惨的战争结束时，我们都将回到自己的家园，我们感到没有什么比自豪地意识到我们属于波多马克军更值得我们尊敬的了。
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
金钱是至高无上的快乐女王——对她来说，律师恳求道，士兵战斗。
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
当我们假定是军人时，我们并没有置公民于不顾。
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
我将成为一个灾难性的士兵。
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
我认为罗马人认为，如果有必要，今天的将军明天就应该当兵。