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战争
War
War in heaven makes no peace on earth.
天上的争战不能使地上太平。
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
只有死者看到了战争的结束。
Making peace is harder than making war.
和平比战争更难。
War grows out of ordinary human nature.
战争产生于人类的本性。
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
在战争中,亚军是没有奖品的。
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
战争造成盗贼,和平把他们吊死。
How is it possible to have a civil war.
怎么可能发生内战呢?
War would end if the dead could return.
如果死人能回来,战争就会结束。
No soldier outlives a thousand chances.
没有一个士兵比一千次机会更长寿。
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
战争是误算的结果。
It is far easier to make war than peace.
战争比和平容易得多。
Feed peace not fear, make spoon not war.
喂饱和平而不是恐惧,喂饱勺子而不是战争。
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
虽然成为一个大国的目标是能够打一场伟大的战争,但保持大国地位的唯一方法是不打一场战争。
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
我们这一代人没有经历过大战,没有经历过大萧条。我们的战争是精神上的。我们的抑郁就是我们的生活。
We make war that we may live in peace.
我们发动战争是为了和平。
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
没有当过兵的人才算真正的男子汉。
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。