How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

  • -- Neville Chamberlain 张伯伦

我们应该在这里挖战壕,戴上防毒面具,因为在一个遥远的国家,我们一无所知的人们之间发生了一场争吵。

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I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

我在战壕里;我尽我所能做到最好。话虽如此,我所做的事情与外部世界融合的方式却让我着迷。因为它起起落落。人们的兴趣和理解,它一直在变化。

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

许多我们称之为邪恶的东西,其实都是善的伪装;我们不应轻率地与尚未理解的逆境争吵,也不应忽视其中往往蕴含的仁慈。

You cannot hook trout? Try digging clams.

你不会钓鳟鱼?试着挖蛤蜊。

Someone is digging your grave right now.

有人正在挖你的坟墓。

An old quarrel is easily renewed.

旧事重提容易。