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They include hard-boiled history, such as a review of how the confused motives of the British government's 1917 Balfour Declaration first laid the ground for the conflict. There is a vitriolic character sketch of Golda Meir,"the face that launched a thousand MiGs". And there is a somewhat moist-eyed account of a peace symposium convened by the conductor Daniel Barenboim that called for more European mediation—a call in which one cannot help but hear a subconscious lament by the eminent and worldly participants that Jerusalem and Damascus were not more like Vienna and Paris in the first place.

其中有冷峻的史实，如书中一篇评论阐述了1917年英国贝尔福宣言背后种种令人不解的动机是如何为以巴冲突埋下了第一个隐患；《令一千架米格飞机升空的人》则以辛辣的文笔给出了果尔达·梅厄的人物特写；而关于丹尼尔·巴伦波音召集和平座谈会呼吁欧洲进行更多调解的报道则令人情不自禁、眼眶微湿——因为我们无法对那些杰出人物与尘世中人在潜意识中发出的叹息置若罔闻：耶路撒冷和大马士革再也不像一开始那样，能与维也纳和巴黎相提并论了。

All the bankers and politicians have to do is wave the red, white, and blue, play a few bars of "Yankee Doodle," and the masses get teary-eyed and pledge greater allegiance to legalized robbery.

银行家与政客要做的只是挥舞星条旗，再演奏一些爱国歌曲，当群众们开始眼眶泛红时，他们就可以再给那些合法的强盗们更多的经济援助。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失