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战争
War
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
我们所知道的是，在同俄国人作战的时候，我们有时不得不把战壕前堆积的敌人尸体移走，以便在新一波的进攻中获得一个清晰的战场。
Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war.
战争中的一切都是简单的，但最简单的事情是困难的。困难的积累和结束产生了一种摩擦，这种摩擦除非经历过战争，否则是不可想象的。
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
在某些历史情况下，拒绝捍卫一个文明的遗产，不管它有多么不完美，反对暴政和侵略可能导致比战争更严重的后果。
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
如果把事实平心静气地摆在老百姓面前，从来没有一场战争是无法避免的。我认为，普通人是抵御战争的强大屏障。
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边，他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵，而我却没有和他争吵过。
To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
在我看来，我们从一开始就应该保持最严格的中立。如果我们这样做了，我认为我们现在不会处于战争的边缘。
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
建立中心……使我们陷入了历史上最愚蠢、最残酷的战争。这场战争是一场道德和政治灾难- -一场吞噬我们国家灵魂的可怕癌症。
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.
准确识别的困难是战争中摩擦的最严重根源之一。战争有一种用粗糙地涂抹着可怕幽灵的景色来掩盖舞台的方法。
Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
这一切的战争，和世界上最高贵的骑士的死亡，都是通过这个人和我造成的。因为我至高的主被杀，是因我们所同爱的主。
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
他们在旧时代写道，为国家而死是甜蜜的，也是恰当的。但在现代战争中，死亡既不甜蜜也不合适。你会无缘无故地像条狗一样死去。
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
如果我们只关心和平，就不可能有和平。战争不是偶然的。它是某种生活方式的逻辑结果。如果我们想攻击战争，我们就必须攻击那种生活方式。
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
从他们高兴的表情，你可能以为他们欢迎战争。我见过喜欢邮票、石头和蛇的人，但我想象不出有谁喜欢战争。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
我发誓，无论何时何地，只要有人忍受痛苦和羞辱，我绝不保持沉默。我们必须始终站在任何一方。中立帮助压迫者，而不是受害者。沉默鼓励受折磨的人，而不是受折磨的人。
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。
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。
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。