A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
我看争战是可憎恶的。但那不亲事而赞美的，更是可憎恶的。
The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
整个秘密在于迷惑敌人，使他不能了解我们的真正意图。
So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.
只要能取得胜利，愚蠢的匆忙总比聪明的拖拉好。
The war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
战争在我的梦中向我袭来，并向我表明了它唯一的目的:继续，仅仅是继续。
Being over there changes a man. Right and wrong don't look so different anymore to some.
在那里会改变一个人。对一些人来说，对与错不再那么不同。
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
我们一直在云中旅行。自从战争开始以来，天空一直是黑暗的。
There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself.
送人去为你连自己都不愿为之战斗的东西而死，这是毫无荣誉可言的。
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
国与国之间的战争是为了改变地图。但是贫困之战是为了改变地图。
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
我在这里是因为我认为允许那些年的战争是西方犯下的滔天罪行。
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
今天在座的许多男孩都把战争视为荣耀，但是，孩子们，战争就是地狱。
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
战争只是另一种贵族掠夺和压迫商业的方式。
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
有时候，战斗和被打败比根本不战斗要好。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.
当军官过于强大，普通士兵过于软弱时，结果就是崩溃。
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。
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
不惜一切代价去夺取胜利，不惧一切恐怖去夺取胜利，不论前路再长再苦也要去夺取胜利;因为没有胜利，就没有生存。
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
你听说了吗，赢得今天是件好事?我还说，失败是件好事，因为在胜利的同时，战斗也以同样的精神失败了。
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
告诉我们要服从本能就像告诉我们要服从人一样。人们会说不同的话，直觉也是如此。我们的本能处于战争状态…每一种本能，如果你听从它，都会声称以牺牲其他本能为代价而得到满足。
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
和平不是没有战争;这是一种美德;精神状态;仁慈的性格;信心;和正义。