A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
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。
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
既没有外国战争,也没有内战;只有正义和非正义的战争。
I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
我意识到可能发生在我身上最糟糕的事情即将发生在我身上。
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
我们的狮子被它自己顽固的尾巴的鞭笞所唤醒,现在它将会受到外国敌人的攻击。
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
是的,政治是没有流血的战争;战争是这些政治的延伸。
Love is a war of all for all. That is why we must covet our neighbors as ourselves.
爱是一场为所有人而战的战争。这就是为什么我们必须把邻居当自己看待。
Hopefully one day wars will only be fought in movies and may the best producer win.
希望有一天战争只会发生在电影中,也许最好的制片人会赢。
War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them.
战争是很多事情,假装兴奋不是其中之一是没有用的。
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
没有战争,我们就不可能取得比战争更好的成就。
Any given moment-no matter how casual, how ordinary-is poised, full of gaping life.
任何一个特定的时刻——无论多么不经意,多么平常——都是泰然自若的,充满了张口的生命。
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
一个人要去打仗,为他的国家战斗和牺牲。但他不会去做比基尼脱毛。
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.
有句老话说,没有一个国家像一个需要英雄的国家那样不幸。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
从历史上看,最可怕的事情——战争、种族灭绝和奴隶制——不是源于不服从,而是源于服从。
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
和平是文明的美德。战争是它的罪行。
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
我们这一代人没有经历过大战,没有经历过大萧条。我们的战争是精神上的。我们的抑郁就是我们的生活。
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。
I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.
我认为,我作为国防和解放战争参加的这场战争,现在已经成为侵略和征服的战争。
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。