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战争
War
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
整个文明史充满了信条和制度，这些信条和制度最初是无价的，后来却致命。
War creates no absolutely new situation; it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it.
战争不会创造绝对的新局面;它只是加剧了人类的长期处境，使我们不能再忽视它。
War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.
战争开始时像一个漂亮的女孩，每个男人都想和她调情，结束时像一个丑陋的老妇人，她的客人们痛苦和哭泣。
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
非洲的冷战是当代历史上最黑暗、最可耻的一页，每个人都应该感到羞耻。
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
每当一场战争结束，在美丽的阳光下，在一个哭泣的孩子的脸上;在无辜的泪滴上，我看到了希望的彩虹。
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
别忘了我们正处于战争和没有和平的状态。但与其他阿拉伯国家相比，这是一个充满活力和挑战的过程。
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
当战争来临的时候，会发生两件事——利润大幅上升，而所有易腐烂的东西都大幅下降。他们有市场。
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
战争是一段插曲，一场危机，一场发烧，其目的是使身体退烧。所以战争的目的就是结束战争。
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
冷战是在非洲以一种特别残酷和愤世嫉俗的方式进行的，非洲似乎无力采取任何行动来制止它。
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。
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
历史上很少有个别历史能够在没有战争或革命的情况下走自己的路。
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
只有经历过光明与黑暗、战争与和平、兴衰的人，才有真正经历过人生的人。
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We make war that we may live in peace.
我们发动战争是为了和平。
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
当大国之间的所有条约与生存斗争发生冲突时，它们就不再具有约束力。
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。
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
我认为，言论自由应该受到保护，但一个家庭在为失去亲人而悲痛时，其隐私权也应该受到保护。对反恐战争的激烈辩论是有时间和地点的，但在一个家庭的最后告别时却不是这样。
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。
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
内战吗?这是什么意思?有外国战争吗?不是每一场战争都是人与弟兄之间的战争吗?