In some strange way it did seem that the more smoothly they yielded, the more swiftly would events sweep on to some great collision.
不知为何,事情似乎真是这样:他们退让得越顺从,事态就越迅速地奔向某场巨大的冲突。
— G. K. Chesterton · The Ball and the Cross · XIX · The Last Parley —
In some strange way it did seem that the more smoothly they yielded, the more swiftly would events sweep on to some great collision.
不知为何,事情似乎真是这样:他们退让得越顺从,事态就越迅速地奔向某场巨大的冲突。