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Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views transformed Britain and transfixed America through the 1980s, died Monday after a stroke…
——The Washington Post
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
她泰然接受了苏联人给她起的绰号。
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
这句话很有治大国如烹小鲜的意味,但比老子说的更有趣。
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
难怪政治家都喜欢讲一样的话。
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
这句话真是妙极了,解读起来大概需要三本字典。与欧洲相比,美国没有历史;但美国有哲学吗?
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
这句话显出铁娘子本色了。
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
这句话应该能给被歧视的“普通院校”同学带来一点自信。
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
中国古人说“牝鸡无晨;牝鸡之晨,惟家之索”(《尚书牧誓》),大概那会儿养鸡只为了打鸣,没想吃鸡蛋。
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
这句真好玩儿。
【以上借用的Thatcher的原话来自—— http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_thatcher.html】
【??不知道为什么英文单词换行会出问题?昨天的也有。】
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