A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

一个保守主义者是站在历史的另一边大喊“停止!”

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

短篇小说集通常被认为是可怕的熟料;对这位想要展示自己年轻时的战利品和鳟鱼蝇的年长作家来说，这是一种强制性的礼貌。

A historian is a prophet in reverse.

历史学家恰恰相反，是先知。

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

历史学家要想揭示真相，就必须撒谎。他常常必须把事实放大，否则读者就看不清了。

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

没有历史和文学的律师是机械师，只是一个泥瓦匠;如果他对这些有一些了解，他可以大胆地自称为建筑师。

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas -- a place where history comes to life.

图书馆，修改了苏格拉底的著名比喻，应该是思想诞生的产房——一个历史重现的地方。

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

很多历史不过是肮脏的政治清洗，为了孩子和其他无辜的人的消费。

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

很多变化都是循序渐进的，它们甚至不算是新闻，甚至不像新闻那么有趣:它们是如此平凡，以至于我们把它们视为理所当然。但历史表明，平凡的变化比戏剧性的“新闻价值”事件更重要。

A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.

他们中的很多人都想来曼联踢球。他们想要踢球，因为亚历克斯有给年轻人机会的记录，而我们有曼联的历史和遗产。

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

一个人要去杀害他不认识的人，他必须只相信一件事，那就是他的行为将改变历史的进程。

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

当我们从旧时代跨入新时代，当一个时代结束，当一个长期受到压制的国家发出声音的时候，一个时刻来临了，这在历史上是罕见的。

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

至少在今天，和平主义者常常是国际主义者，反之亦然。但历史告诉我们，和平主义者不需要国际思维。

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

历史上的诗人是神圣的，但隔壁房间里的诗人只是个笑话。

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

对自己使命的坚定信念所激发的一小群坚定的精神可以改变历史的进程。

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

对过去几年工资历史的研究清楚地表明，当生活费用明显上升时，工资也已在短期内向上调整。