1981年的2月27日，也就是27年前的今天，美国总统里根访问英国，以“向丘吉尔致敬”为题发表了非常具有幽默感的演讲。摘出两段有意思的句子，供大家一乐。
Winston Churchill is believed to have said that the three most difficult things a man can be asked to do is to climb a wall leaning toward him, kiss a woman leaning away from him, and give a good after-dinner speech.
…I can remember words attributed to Churchill about one somber, straitlaced colleague in Parliament. Churchill said, “ He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” He once said of one of our best known diplomats that he was the only case he knew of a bull who carries his own china closet with him. |
