"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen and not in mine is the great issue of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.

我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So the army, people think, "Oh, my gosh, you're going to go into war now." you know.

所以对于部队，人们会想，“哦，我的天啊，你要去战场了。”

英国的军人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

VOA: special.2009.05.25

My Belgian road is telling me, you know, we have racism We fought terrible war in .

我很清楚，我们存在种族问题,在越南我们打了一场一塌糊涂的仗。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.

我会毫不吝啬的盈满我的灵魂,但绝不是通过创伤才走向成熟，也不是靠幸运赢得战争。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

I was particularly interested in metaphysical poetry political philosophy -- I wrote my thesis on a radical political philosopher of the 17th century of the civil war period.

我尤其感兴趣的是玄学诗派,和政治哲学，我的毕业论文,就是有关一名激进的政治哲学家,他生活在内战的十八世纪。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Since the 1st of January it has become more and more evident to my mind that the war is henceforth to be conducted upon a different basis.

自元旦以来,我越来越明白,至此,实际上战争,被触发的起点不同

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled.

我的那些可能遭受人们讥笑嘲讽的快乐，那些早已被人们遗弃我却为之哭泣的人啊，如今你们都死去了吧，我想说的是那些依然被掩藏的事实，战争中被蒸馏掉的怜悯。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选