战地行纪

• edie

  2013-01-16
  奥登坐火车北上，回伯明翰父母家继续写《诗体解说词》。他写完后，急于听到道兹夫人的评价，因为他不确定“这类诗歌是否可能避免成为某周单调夸张的老掉牙玩意”。此外，他告诉道兹夫人说他已决定在12月回布鲁塞尔去做个手术——他的痔疮可能复发了——他没告诉她的，是他和衣修伍德已决定移民美国，这事他跟谁都没有说起。
• 示播列

  2013-01-12
  我们必须生活在自由中，一个山里的部族要住在群山之内。
• 懋

  2019-12-17
  有人不堪忍受也驯服不了年轻人，悲叹造了昔日国际亲善的神话已受伤流血，有人失去了一个他们从未理解的世界，有人已将人的生来本性彻底地看穿。
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  This is the real capital of war-time China. All kinds of people living in this town — Chiang Kai-shek, Anges Smedley, Chou En-lai; generals, ambassadors, journalists, foreign naval officers, soldiers of fortune, airmen, missionaries, spies. Hidden here are all the clues which would enable an expert, if he could only find them, to predict the events of the next fifty years.
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  The clothing-shops, the cafes, and the restaurants are kept by White Russian emigrants. You see two or three of them behind nearly every bar…Their great pallid faces look out into the future, above innumerable cigarettes and tea-glasses, without pity or hope. ‘Their clocks’, says Auden, ‘stopped in 1917. It has been tea-time ever since.’
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  On the distant shore, the building of Hankow stood grim and black against the low clouds; before us swept the Yangtze, a terrible race of yellow waves and tearing snow. We had arrived, it seemed, at the very end of the world.
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  A friend in Honkong had supplied us already with phonetic Chinese names — Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu.
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  We began to move into the dining-room, still talking; there seemed to be no special order of precedence. All this informality, admirable as it was, disappointed us a little. Both Auden and myself were still stepped in the traditions of The Chinese Bungalow. We had even reheated the scene beforehand, and prepared suitable compliments and speeches. The Governor should have said: ‘My poor house is honoured.’ And we should have replied: ‘Our feet are quite unworthy to rest upon your honourable doorstep.’ On which, the Governor, had he known his stuff, would have cracked back: ‘If my doorstep were gold, it would hardly be fit for your distinguished shoes.’ And so on. Perhaps, after all, it was a good thing that General Wu was unacquainted with the subtleties of European stage-Chinese, or we mig...
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  After tea, she and I went for a walk. It was clear already beginning to get dark. We climbed a small hill behind the village, overlooking the Canton valley. Beneath us lay the great spraying city, and, all around it, in the dusk, the mysterious, wooded Kwangtung plains. Along the horizon, miniature mountains poked up their little hat-like peaks. It was the landscape of Alice through the Looking-Glass. Here you might make a Lewis Carroll walking-tour, coming unexpectedly upon the strangest of people engaged in the queerest of tasks — two old men trying to put a rat into a bottle, a woman pouring water through a sieve. And yet all these topsy-turvy occupations, when once came to inquire into their purpose, would prove, no doubt, to be eminently practical and sane. The Chinese, we had been to...
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  And nothing serious can happen here.
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  V. MACAOA weed from Catholic Europe, it took rootBetween some yellow mountains and a sea,Its gay stone houses an exotic fruit,A Portugal-cum-China oddity.Rococo images of Saint and SaviourPromise its gamblers fortunes when they die,Churches alongside brothels testifyThat faith can pardon natural behaviour.A town of such indulgence need not fearThose mortal sins by which the strong are killedAnd limbs and governments are torn to pieces:Religious clocks will strike, the childish vicesWill safeguard the low virtues of the child,And nothing serious can happen here.
• 好养活

  2019-08-14
  IV. HONG KONGIts leading characters are wise and witty,Their suits well-tailored, and they wear them well,Have many a polished parable to tellAbout the mores of a trading city.Only the servants enter unexpected,Their silent movements make dramatic news;Here in the East our bankers have erectedA worthy temple to the Comic Muse.Ten thousand miles from home and What’s-Her-NameA bugle on this Late Victoria hillPuts out the soldier’s light; off-stage, a warThuds like the slamming of a distant door:Each has his comic role in life to fill,Though Life be neither comic nor a game.
• 句芒

  2013-07-22
  我们问他共产党在战后将可能扮演何种角色。他反问：“共产主义者为何而奋斗？事实上，他们究竟能否被称为共产主义者？”在他看来，鲍罗廷撤走后，共产主义在中国就不再存在了。
• 句芒

  2013-07-17
  有人提到了希特勒的国会演讲。“我认为德国很愚蠢。”将军说，“它认为日本是为了抵御布尔什维克主义；如果日本不开战，中国会变成共产主义。但是德国错了。中国不会演变成共产主义；可如果战争持续很长一段时间，日本才会变成布尔什维克主义。中国有四亿人，日本只有一亿；但日本的共产主义煽动分子要比整个中国还多。”
• 三皮

  2013-07-13
  吴将军（吴铁城，时任广东省行政长官）住在城郊一幢舒适却毫不招摇的混凝土别墅里。童先生，将军的秘书，在门厅迎接我们——一个脸带笑意的圆脸男子，他如此温和有礼，让人忍不住想拍拍他脸颊再赏他一块糖果。
• 懋

  2019-12-17
  有朋友、书籍和钱资，有旅行者的自由，我们才意识到我们的避难所是个冒牌货。
• 懋

  2019-12-17
  “尽管痛苦，”注定失败者言道，“活着仍然可喜”。
• 懋

  2019-12-17
  他寻找真理，却总是错谬连连，羡慕不多的几个朋友，选择爱的方式。
• 懋

  2019-12-17
  理智总比发疯要好，被人喜欢总胜过令人畏惧；坐下享受美食总比饭莱难以下咽要好；相拥入睡总比孤枕难眠要好；快乐当然更好。