如果我们所面临的境况确实是这样，那么，对于可能在我们思想中扎根的那些好战倾向，不管是什么，我们都设法将它连根拔起，我想没有比这更有好处的事情了。

If this is what we are up against, it won't do much good to try to uproot whatever war-like inclinations may dwell within our minds.

youdao

词句、思想、观念，甚至像手势这样简单的东西，在我们这两个文化中都可能有十分不同的含义。

Words, ideas, concepts, even as simple a thing as a gesture-these can have very different meanings in our two cultures.

youdao