War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

  • -- Smedley Butler 巴特勒

战争是一种骗局。这是唯一一个在国际范围内。这是唯一一种利润以美元计算,而生命损失以美元计算的方法。

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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

当一名战士在一场不可避免地会导致他死亡的攻击下,选择先结束自己的生命,这并不被认为是疯狂的。事实上,这种行为已经被鼓励了几个世纪,甚至现在也被认为是做这种行为的一个光荣的理由。当你受到自己思想的攻击时,又有什么不同呢?

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

在战后的这两年半中,我们遇到的最紧迫的问题是:激活公共企业,使它们达到国际市场所需要的水平,我们现在正在使它们为私有化作好准备。

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

我们所知道的是,在同俄国人作战的时候,我们有时不得不把战壕前堆积的敌人尸体移走,以便在新一波的进攻中获得一个清晰的战场。

I have set out to change the language of the international system.

我已着手改变国际体系的语言。