Tropic

安利一下我最喜欢的英国作家，Terry Pratchett。他的文笔既幽默又睿智，可惜我翻译不出来...

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process is called 'living'

在人死前他们的一生确实会在眼前闪过。那过程叫“活着”。

If a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm... So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kil lyou with hardly a word.

如果你不幸被仇敌俘虏，请祈祷他是一个邪恶的人。因为邪恶渴望权利，渴望控制，渴望看到你的恐惧。他们想让你知道你必死无疑，所以他们会和你说话，会幸灾乐祸，会看你挣扎...所以祈祷你的俘虏者是个邪恶的人，因为一个好人会毫不犹豫地杀死你。

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

永远记住，为你的加冕喝彩的和为你的死刑叫好的是一群人。人们只是爱看好戏。

If you sell the dream to enough people, no one dared to wake up.

如果你把白日梦卖给足够多的人，就没有人敢再醒来。

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first.

光认为它比什么都迅速，但它错了。无论它以多快的速度穿梭，它总是发现黑暗已在它之前到达。

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

动物绝不可能做出这样的事。只有人类才能达到如此愚蠢的境界。

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

他们（人类）出生在一个以千万种方式与他们作对的世界，然后他们把一生绝大多精力花在把情况变得更糟糕。

They hadn't run, and they could have run with honor... They'd stayed not because they wanted to beheroes, but because they choose to think of it as their job.

他们没有逃跑，即使他们不会因此丧失荣誉...他们留下并不是因为他们想成为英雄，而是因为那是他们的工作。

It is always useful to have an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, this means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

有一个做好为国捐躯的准备的敌人是件很棒的事，因为这意味着你和他的目标是一样的。

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

历史上多数伟大胜利和重大悲剧的产生并不是因为人的本性是善良或邪恶，而是因为他们是人。

在世界毁灭前听到的最后一句话大概是：“如果我这么做会发生什么事？”

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