丘吉尔语录(英中对照)

古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
丘吉尔语录
during world warⅡ, an aide read to churchill an account in a tabloid: a 75-year-old man on a january day with the temperature 35o below freezing had propositioned a 19-year-old girl to have sex on the grass in hyde park. churchill remarked:"over 75! below-zero temperature! it makes you proud to be an englishman!"
in 1940, when the first destroyers arrived under america's lend-lease program to britain, churchill went to inspect them. he looked at the decidedly overaged rust buckets and grumbled in a whisper,"cheap and nasty."＊ harry hopkins, the american president's right-hand man, was startled by the remark, and queried,"what was that?" churchill amended loudly,"cheap for us, and nasty for the germans."

第二次世界大战期间，丘吉尔一名助手读了一段小报新闻给他听：有个七十五岁男人，在一月零下三十五度的气温之中，要求一个十九岁女郎在海德公园草地上和他交欢。丘吉尔说：「七十五岁高龄！零度以下低温！英国男人能不自豪！」
一九四○年，美国按照对英国的武器租借计划，把第一批驱逐舰送到。丘吉尔前去察看，见那些战船十分残旧，咕哝说：「低贱得要命。」美国总统的得力助手哈利．霍布金斯听到，愕然问道：「先生说什么？」丘吉尔大声改口说：「对我们而言，是价格低贱；对德国人而言，是要他们的命。」
备注：
＊英文成语 cheap and nasty是「质量低劣」的意思。