The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

  • -- Derek Walcott 沃尔科特

历史的叹息从废墟中升起,而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛,除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外,几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

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Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

撒旦不能赢。为什么不呢?因为他不承认神的主权,不遵守神的律法。但是摩西被明确地告诉,神的祝福只来自顺服。撒旦不会赢,因为他已经放弃了上帝的统治工具,圣经律法。

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

欧洲没有人会被抛弃。欧洲没有人会被排除在外。只有我们共同努力,欧洲才能成功。

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。

We have been abandoned by our own country.

我们被自己的国家抛弃了。