【一战往事】Part 2（38）天真得像个孩子

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Duty. Duty and service to above and below. Frugality....Keeping your word, honouring the past. Looking after your people and beggaring yourself if need be before letting duty go hang. If we'd stayed out of it, I'd have gone over to France to fight for France, for agriculture against industrialism, for the 18th century against the 20th, if you like. Hoped you'd understand. I understand you! You're as innocent about yourself as a child. You would've thought all the same things in the 18th century. Of course I would, and I would have been right! But you do make one collect one's thoughts.责任。对上级和民众都尽职尽责，俭省，守信，尊重过去，关心民众。即使因此贫穷困窘也决不能不顾责任。如果我们置身事外，我可以去法国为法国而战，为农业对工业宣战，甚至为十八世纪对二十世纪宣战。希望你能明白。我当然明白。你天真得像个孩子。即使在十八世纪你也会这么想。那是当然，在那个时代我是对的。你倒是让我理顺了自己的想法。