The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  • -- Barbara W. Tuchman 芭芭拉·W·图赫曼

没有记录的过去正是我们的老朋友,那棵原始森林里的树,它无声无息地倒下了。

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Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

只有西班牙语在这里被理解或使用;我们的朋友,乡下人,非常高尚地支持我们,他理解我们并不比其他人好多少,但他看到我们处于困境,不会抛弃我们。

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

如果你挥拳,对方也会挥拳。但如果你伸出手去和他们握手,他们也会伸出手来,你就交了一个朋友。

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

那些不记得过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙,而不会有一种讽刺的徒劳感。

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

我没有收集纪念品。我不是一个活在过去的人。