A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
士兵
Soldiers
Old soldiers never die.
老兵不死。
The best soldiers are not warlike.
最好的士兵不好战。
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
公民的作用和士兵的作用是不可分割的。
Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers.
不要把好铁浪费在钉子上，也不要把好男人浪费在士兵身上。
Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
在国内，消防员是不可或缺的步兵。
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
十个士兵聪明地领导，就能打败一百个没有头的士兵。
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
耶和华使他的精兵从患难中出来。
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
一小撮士兵总比满口争论强。
These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
这些士兵应该有一个比我们更好的国防部长。
I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.
我对我们士兵周围的家庭和社区同样感兴趣。
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
诗人是把文字从对定义的坚定占有中解放出来的战士。
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
我给所有给我写信的士兵回信，给他们寄海报和日历。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
巴顿生活在黑暗时代。士兵对他来说是农民。我不喜欢这种态度。
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
战争使我的锡兵们产生了一种新的兴趣。不可能有足够多的箱子。
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
在我玩了这么多年的兵，然后又读了这么多年的历史之后，我几乎有一种狂热要去东方，去看战斗，去服役。
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
士兵是死亡灰色地带的公民，不能从时间的明天得到任何好处。
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
如果我们的士兵没有金钱负担过重，那并不是因为他们厌恶财富;如果他们的寿命不长，并不是因为他们不愿意长寿。
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
上帝赋予这顶王冠如此勇敢的士兵，即使他们不会吓到我们的邻居，至少也能阻止我们被他们吓到。