How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

  • -- Samuel Adams 塞缪尔·亚当斯

一个暴君的工具会多么奇怪地歪曲文字的意思!

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Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

也许只有像我这样的艺术世界主义者才能赋予像鞠躬这样简单和愚蠢的东西更深的意义。但是,对我们来说,每当人们重复一个姿势或一个小舞蹈,无论是单独还是在一起,我们都能看到它的意义。意象主义和无言的语言是我们的东西。

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

对一个领导者的最后考验是,他把信念和意志留给其他人。

You will have every kind of kiss in every kind of way in every possible place when we are together.

只要我们在一起,你愿意用任何一种方式,在任何一个可能的地方,用任何一种方式吻我。

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

在某种程度上,当人们使用一个词时,他们的意思变成了它的意思。

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

你的言语是我的食物,你的气息是我的美酒。你是我的一切。

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

每个活着的暴君都相信自己的自由。

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

我不知道该说什么好。但就连我的损失也被放大了。

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

任何借口都是暴君的借口。