The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

  • -- Robert D. Kaplan 卡普兰

首先要认识到的不仅是阿富汗,还有任何一个贫穷的不发达国家,它就像地图上看起来的那么大,当你在那里的时候,它会变得更大。

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This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

这个大零件掉在地板上了。另一部分像这样,落在我的脚上!站起来!它站在我的脚上!就在我脚边。笛子玻璃。我想我就像在我自己的照片里。

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

菲律宾想要美丽。我必须看起来很漂亮,这样可怜的菲律宾人才能从贫民窟里看到明星。

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

我希望我能说这很容易,但老实说,为一个大的冠军做准备并不像看起来那么容易。

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

忘记一个拙劣的笑话是件好事。