温斯顿·丘吉尔/Winston Churchill
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the pas t,trying to reconstruct its scenes,to revive its echoes,and kindle wi th pale gleams the passion of former days.
As the great scroll of history unrolls,many complicated incidents o ccur which it is difficult to introduce effectively into the pattern of the likes and dislikes of the epoch in which we live.
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculati on on the principle that two and two make four.Sometimes in life they m ake five or minus three;and sometimes the blackboard topples down in th e middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue w ith a black eye.
Science,which now offers us a golden age with one hand,offers at t he same time with the other the doom of all that we have built up inch b y inch since the Stone Age and the dawn of any human annals.My faith is in the high progressive destiny of man.I do not believe that we are to be flung back into abysmal darkness of fiercesome discoveries which huma n genius has made let us make sure that they are our servants,but not o ur masters.
Its place in the healing of the sick,and in giving more food and le isure for life.When it helps the strong crush the weak,and rob those w ho are asleep,it is using truth for impious ends.Those who are thus sa crilegious will suffer and be punished,for their own weapons will be tu rned against them.
在摇曳灯光的照耀下，历史在过去的小路上踽踽而行，试图重建过去的景象，恢复往日的回声，并想用微弱的光芒点燃往日的**。
当历史巨大的卷轴展开之时，许多错综复杂的事件出现了，而这些事件很难有效地纳入我们这个时代人们的好恶模式之中。
人类的故事并不总是像数学运算一样根据二加二等于四的原则展开。人的一生中，有时可能等于五或负三；有时，正算到一半，黑板倒塌，使全班陷于混乱，教师被砸得鼻青脸肿。