What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

  • -- George Grosz 格罗兹

我能对第一次世界大战说些什么呢?在这场战争中,我作为一名步兵服役,一开始我痛恨这场战争,但随着战争的进行,我从未对它感到温暖。

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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

的确,人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是,毫无疑问,这个世界产生于一种思想,这种思想往往是多样化的,有时是完全相反的,而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

如果把事实平心静气地摆在老百姓面前,从来没有一场战争是无法避免的。我认为,普通人是抵御战争的强大屏障。

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

整个晚上,人们看着天空,为星星感到悲伤。

World history is tragic.

世界历史是悲惨的。