Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

  • -- Allan Massie 艾伦·马西

年轻人,你知道士兵是什么吗?他是那个使文明的人们蔑视战争成为可能的人。

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When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.

当我把它拉出来的时候,它的头还留在我的腿上,那里仍然是静止的。我把箭拔出来时,箭柄上有几英寸的血。

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

我父亲受过马鞍的训练,但事实上,他年轻时在父亲的养牛和卖牛的生意中工作,所以他在农村长大。

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

我认为,历史可以而且应该以一种新的方式来教授,以便使年轻人能够理解它作为一种进化过程的意义。

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

战争的艺术很简单。找出你的敌人在哪里。尽快找到他。尽你所能地打击他,然后继续前进。

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

每个公民都应该当兵。这是希腊人和罗马人的情况,而且必须是每一个自由国家的情况。

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

在战争中,你必须恨某个人或爱某个人;你必须有一个职位,否则你无法忍受所发生的一切。