A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
战争
War
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
在第一次世界大战的帐簿上，记录俄国损失的那一页被撕掉了。具体数字不详。五百万，还是八百万?我们自己也不知道。
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full again with youth And wash with an immortal water age?
生命能使这些躯体重生吗?所有的死亡，所有的眼泪，他都能消除吗?还是用青春来填满这些空虚的血管，用不朽的岁月来洗涤?
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
成为一个国际主义者，学会尊重所有的生命。向机器开战。尤其是企业死亡的无菌机器和保护它们的机器人。
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
像我这样的医生，试图帮助父母把孩子培养成健康快乐的人，却为了一项不光彩的事业，让这么多人死去，这有什么用呢?
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
第二次世界大战以来，建筑发生了什么变化，只有那些拿着一根白棍子和一条狗的路人才能不痛不痛地欣赏它?
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
我们从第一次世界大战中了解到，我们的一些部队有接触化学物质的急性症状，身体不好，在第一次世界大战中因接触化学物质而死亡。
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
新世纪带来了它自己的可怕危险，尽管没有达到冷战的灾难性潜力，但仍然有能力震撼我们的世界。
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
人类是非常好斗和好斗的，而且动不动就上战场。然而，一场标准的陆地战争将不再有效，因为它在技术上不再可能。
War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it causes is beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition and our history, the place we had to live in.
战争是一种恶性疾病，一种白痴，一种监狱，一种痛苦 原因是说不清道不明的;但战争是我们的条件 还有我们的历史，我们必须生活的地方。
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
你可以查阅马克吐温的材料，证明任何你想要的东西。他反对战争。他赞成战争。他反对富人，他支持他们。他是个万花筒。
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
在战争的发展过程中，出现了一系列不可预见的情况，人类的智慧无法估计其结局;只有一件事是肯定的，那就是增税。
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
我在打仗……以传统哲学的主要人物为代表，那个抽象的主体假扮成每个人和任何人，但实际上是一个伪装的男性主体。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
与其赢得一千场战斗，不如征服自己。那么胜利就是你的了。无论是天使、是鬼魔、是天堂、是地狱、都不能夺去你的灵魂。
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
你出生在光的奇妙秘密的孩子-你回到你一直是美丽的。
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。
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。
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.
当战争爆发时，人们说:“这太愚蠢了，不会持续太久的。”尽管战争可能“太愚蠢”，但这并不妨碍它的持久。
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?