Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

联盟-在国际政治中,两个小偷的联盟,他们的手深深地插在对方的口袋里,不能单独抢劫第三个人。

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If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

如果联邦一旦被切断,分离的界线将变得越来越宽,现在在立法大厅里辩论和解决的争议将在战场上进行审判,并由武力来决定。

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

婚姻是这样一种联盟:一个男人关着窗户睡不着,一个女人开着窗户睡不着。

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

为一个阶级的利益向社会征税不是保护,而是掠夺。

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

如果我去工厂工作,我要做的第一件事就是加入工会。

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

大贼带走小贼。