A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
War is a national evil inclination.
战争是民族的邪恶倾向。
A hospital alone shows what war is.
医院本身就能说明战争是什么。
Surviving is the only glory in war.
生存是战争中唯一的光荣。
Arrived too late. Act already done.
来得太迟了。行动已经完成。
Of course you know, this means war.
你当然知道,这意味着战争。
At the wars as they do at the wars.
就像他们在战争中所做的那样。
A bad peace is even worse than war.
糟糕的和平比战争更糟糕。
In war, truth is the first casualty.
在战争中,真理是第一个牺牲者。
War is a horribly fascinating thing.
战争是一件非常迷人的事情。
They won the war but lost the peace.
他们赢得了战争,但失去了和平。
History is a symptom of our disease.
历史是我们疾病的症状。
War is just demographics in a hurry.
战争只是人口统计学上的快速增长。
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The worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.
我们能做的最糟糕的事情,绝对最糟糕的事情,就是什么也不做。
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。
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
我不相信战争是最好的解决办法。没有人赢得最后一场战争,也没有人会赢得下一场战争。
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。
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。
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
文明社会由于人类彼此之间的这种主要敌意而永远受到解体的威胁。