A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
囚犯
Prisoners
You are a prisoner of your own mind.
你是自己思想的囚徒。
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.
我一直反对囚犯有选举权。
If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
如果我们去吉娃娃狗,我们必须被视为战俘吗?
Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.
我们不应该把学生变成囚犯,而应该把学生变成囚犯。
The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.
战俘返回后的生活几乎从未被讨论过,也从未被探索过。
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
当我被迫和一群囚犯在一起时,我所能做的就是克制自己不去攻击他们。
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.
为了更好地防止交谈,囚犯们应该在每个人的头上放一个帆布包,并在脖子上绑上一个洞,以便正常呼吸和进食,但不能看到东西。
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
五角大楼表示,这些囚犯是根据日内瓦公约被关押的,当然我对此并不放心,但我无法证明这是错的;所以我们更清楚了。
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.
蜡烛不是为我们而燃烧,而是为所有那些我们没能从监狱里救出的人而燃烧,他们在入狱的路上中弹,被拷打,被绑架,“失踪”了。这就是蜡烛的作用。
The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
岛上的反种族隔离囚犯,就像各个时代和国家的许多人一样,发现莎士比亚有一种特殊的能力来缓和他们的处境。他们过去常常偷偷地聚在一起看戏;有一次,这本书被分发给每个人,让他们写下自己最喜欢的台词。