I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

  • -- Boris Yeltsin 叶利钦

我指的是要求对另一个国家的事务进行人道主义干预的呼吁- -这是一种新的想法- -即使是在以捍卫人权和自由为借口的情况下。

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If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

如果你真的想从更大的方面展示权力,你需要展示对无权者的影响,无论是好是坏——公共工程的人力成本。这就是我想做的,不仅展示权力是如何运作的,也展示它对人们的影响。

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

我将努力不为给仇恨和激情的火焰添上任何燃料而感到内疚,如果继续助长仇恨和激情,欧洲的人类良知之战所留下的一切将被烧毁。

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

我在五月是一个差劲的击球手,但同样的事情让我在六月成为一个伟大的击球手。

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

这个世界是由不想成为英雄的人组成的。