A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
如果你只攻击没有防御的地方，你一定能成功。
The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
发动战争的目的，总是为了处于再发动一场战争的有利地位。
At time of peace, we should love one another. At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.
在和平时期，我们应该彼此相爱。在战争中，我们应该把我们的思想作为猎人。
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
我已经把两个表兄妹送去打仗了，我随时准备牺牲我妻子的弟弟。
We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.
我们不应该让政客们插手这场战争，因为它是复杂的、非常规的。
This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
这一代人习惯于战争，习惯于危险，熟悉残酷。
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
我本可以在一个月内结束战争。我本可以把北越弄得像个泥坑。
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
战争的愚蠢之处在于，它不会有自然的结局，除非整个民族灭绝。
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
战争对平民社会的损害不亚于对敌人的损害。士兵们永远无法克服它。
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
要赢得这场战争，我们需要的是一位三军统帅，而不是一位站在讲台上的法学教授。
The old men send the young to die in war, But if the roles were reversed, what then the score.
老人把年轻人送去战场送死，但如果角色互换，结果又会怎样呢?
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
年轻人必须承受苦难、悲伤……那是战争的后果。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
从来没有好的战争或坏的和平。
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。
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
当然，战争是可以避免的;但它们比某种和平要好得多。
Of course you know, this means war.
你当然知道，这意味着战争。
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。
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。