A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.
把敌人描绘得尽可能的不人道是赢得战争的好方法。
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
正如和平是一切美好的象征,战争也是一切苦难的象形文字。
The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.
真正的真相从来没有写过任何战争,这也不例外。
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
在我们国家……一个阶级的人发动战争,而另一个阶级的人去战斗到底。
If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.
如果世界被解除武装,并且继续解除武装,就不会再有世界大战。
While you try to make peace on earth, the inhabitants of heaven are still at war.
当你试图在地上讲和的时候,天上的居民还在争战。
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
我们不会通过杀害彼此的孩子来学会如何和平共处。
In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.
在任何其他类型的战争中,侵略者都没有这么大的优势。
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
一旦你听到胜利的细节,就很难把它与失败区分开来。
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
永远不要认为战争,无论多么必要,多么正当,都不是犯罪。
I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
我讨厌战争中的砰砰声:我总觉得无声的战争会更容易忍受。
And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers.
所以,指手画脚变成了指手画脚,因为没有人听指手画脚。
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
我们将不惜一切代价保卫我们的岛屿,我们将在海滩上战斗,我们将在登陆场战斗,我们将在田野和街道上战斗,我们将在山上战斗;我们决不投降。
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.
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。
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
如果没有战争,就不会有伟大的将军;如果没有伟大的时刻,你就不会有伟大的政治家;如果林肯生活在和平时期,没有人会知道他的名字。
Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
耶和华我的磐石是应当称颂的。他教导我的手能以争战,教导我的指头能以争战。
All are at war with the one who wars against self.
所有人都在与与自己作战的人交战。
Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world.
和平永远不会像战争那样令人信服。也许这就是为什么世界上的黄金如此之少。