An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

从最伟大的国家联盟到市镇会议或法衣室,从来没有存在过一种不互相争吵的人的联盟。

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If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

如果英美联盟是和平事业中一个强有力的因素,那么日耳曼种族和盎格鲁-撒克逊种族的两个分支之间的新三联将对世界的未来产生更大的影响。

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

来自雅达利的家伙在黑暗游戏中独自创造了下一个,我们有一个伟大的会议。我很乐意这么做。我是个电子游戏迷。我喜欢他们。成为他们中的一员将是一件有趣和令人兴奋的事情。

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

我不介意去见一些我曾经试图描绘的旧时代的人。他们可能都有非常糟糕的皮肤和可怕的口臭,我得给他们打个乙醛。

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.

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。

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

这个毫无价值的地球上的最后一个声音将是两个人试图发射一艘自制的宇宙飞船,而且已经在为他们下一步要去哪里而争吵了。

Every king was once a crying baby and every great building was once a map. It’s not important where you are today, but where you will reach tomorrow.

每一个国王都曾是一个哭泣的婴儿,每一座伟大的建筑都曾是一幅地图。你今天在哪里并不重要,重要的是你明天将到达哪里。

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

如果各国只能依靠一个世界法院的公正和不偏不倚的判决,它们就会放弃毫无意义的野蛮战争做法。

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

有些神秘事物,人们只能猜测,而随着年龄的增长,他们只能部分地解开。

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

你能胜过某人的最大的胜利之一就是礼貌地击败他。

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

男孩就是男孩,很多中年男人也是。