A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

  • -- Gertrude Stein 格特鲁德·斯坦

一场美好的战争是这样的战争,每个英雄都是英雄,每个人或多或少都是美好战争中的英雄。这场战争一点也不美好。

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

事实上,礼貌是一种人造的好幽默,它掩盖了人们对它的自然缺乏,并以使习惯性成为几乎等同于真正美德的替代品而告终。

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.

在很大程度上,每个人都很好。一直都有笑话,但那是成为焦点的一部分。你不可能让每个人都完全快乐。

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

无论如何,行政当局无权决定是否有宣战的理由。

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.

暴风雨来了又去,海浪在头顶上撞击,大鱼吃小鱼,我继续划着船。