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争吵
Quarrel
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations is as shocking as it is true.
所有国家都有以战争为生的人，而且不断地发生国家间的争吵，这是令人震惊的事实。
You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
你不可与邻舍争竞，因为他必住在原处。你的强暴必成为百姓谈论的话题。
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
虽然在街上争吵是一件可恨的事，但其中表现出来的精力是好的;最平凡的人也会在争吵中表现出优雅。
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
时间能治愈悲伤和争吵，因为我们变了，不再是同一个人。冒犯者和被冒犯者都不再是他们自己。
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
和平运动是促进和平的强大力量。世界上一些最好斗的人通过和平运动表现出他们的侵略行为。
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
如果墓志铭是我的故事，我会准备一个简短的墓志铭。我要把我的名字写在我的石头上:我和世界发生了一场情人之间的争吵。
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
跟这个世界争吵是完全没有结果的，而跟自己争吵有时是有结果的，而且她不得不承认，总是很有趣。
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
这个毫无价值的地球上的最后一个声音将是两个人试图发射一艘自制的宇宙飞船，而且已经在为他们下一步要去哪里而争吵了。
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
什么是公共历史?它不过是那些参与权力争夺者的成功与失望、罪恶、愚蠢和争吵的记录。
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
大知闲闲，小知间间。大言炎炎，小言詹詹。
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
的确，我们软弱、病态、丑陋、好争吵，但如果我们曾经是这样的人，我们几千年前就从地球上消失了。
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
现在的问题是，不要因为说得太多而陷入不必要的争吵，也不要因为说得太多而显得软弱;让我们的行动自己说话。
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
我有一个爱人与世界争吵。
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
在虚假的争吵中没有真正的勇气。
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
我们不会让我们国家的活力耗尽，也不会让它的道德力量减弱，因为我们不会无休止地干预和搅乱每一场折磨世界的大大小小的争吵。
Unmarried, quarrelsome, and retaining no friend,
没有嫁娶，好争竞，不结交朋友，
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.
我们知道，双方的弱点是所有争吵的座右铭。