It is going on for many years actually from the time of operation providr comfort with which I was involved in Northern Iraq when we realised that we would have civilian problems we need to develope civilian capacity to deal with these things.

这种状况已经持续了很多年了,从一开始在阿富汗北部,我参与的提供安慰行动,那时候我们就意识到我们缺少平民,我们需要更多的平民来解决这些问题。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

I think... I'm hopeful that there will be some action in the next coming years

我认为……我相信在接下来几年内人们会采取行动，

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And more immediately, this weekend, as all of you are thinking the most event in the world was whatever was happening in Congress to do with Iraq, actually, the most important event in the world was taking place in England where my favorite team, portsmouth, were playing Kaj, the head TA's favorite team, Liverpool.

再举个最近的例子吧,比如这周末,在场的各位都觉得世界上最重要的事,是国会对伊拉克采取何种行动,但我觉得最重要的事发生在英格兰,我最喜爱的足球队,朴茨茅斯队,对抗助教长卡茄最喜爱的利物浦队

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

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