词汇：motto

n. 座右铭，格言；箴言

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Was there any violence on the parts of strikers to justify your... My motto was: "Prevention, not repression. " But you let scabs move in and start working.>>完整场景

By the time he finally rode onto the little hill with the live oaks above the Guadalupe, the sign was about gone. The Latin motto, of which Augustus had been so proud, being at the bottom, had long since been broken off. The part about the pigs was gone, and the part about what they rented and sold, and Deets’s name as well. Most of Pea Eye’s name had flaked off, and his own also. Call hoped to save the plank where Gus had written his own name, but the rope he had tied the body with had rubbed out most of the lettering. In fact, the sign was not much more than a collection of splinters, two of which Call got in his hand as he was untying Gus. Only the top of the sign, the part that said “Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium” was still readable.>>完整场景

Call was quick to see the point. “You don’t know yourself,” he said. “It could say anything. For all you know it invites people to rob us.” Augustus got a laugh out of that. “The first bandit that comes along who can read Latin is welcome to rob us, as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “I’d risk a few nags for the opportunity of shooting at an educated man for a change.” After that, the argument about the motto, or the appropriateness of the sign as a whole, surfaced intermittently when there was nothing else to argue about around the place. Of the people who actually had to live closest to the sign, Deets liked it best, since in the afternoon the door it was written on afforded a modest spot of shade in which he could sit and let his sweat dry.>>完整场景

“It’s a motto,” Augustus said. “It just says itself.” He was determined to conceal for as long as possible the fact that he didn’t know what the motto meant, which anyway was nobody’s business. He had written it on the sign—let others read it.>>完整场景

Call did finally notice the motto one day; but only because his horse happened to throw a shoe across the road from thesign. When he got down to pick up the shoe he glanced over and noticed some curious writing below the part about pigs.>>完整场景

More galling still was the fact that no member of his own firm had noticed the motto, not even Newt, from whom Augustus expected a certain alertness. Of course two members of the firm were totally illiterate—three, if he chose to count Bolivar—and wouldn’t have known Latin from Chinese. Still, the way they casually treated the sign as just part of the landscape caused Augustus to brood a good deal about the contempt that familiarity breeds.>>完整场景

Augustus didn’t say a word about the motto, and it was a good two months before anybody even noticed it, which showed how unobservant the citizens of Lonesome Dove really were. It galled Augustus severely that no one appreciated the fact that he had thought to write a Latin motto on a sign that all visitors could see as they rode in, though in fact those riding in took as little note of it as those already in, perhaps because getting to Lonesome Dove was such a hot, exhausting business. The few people who accomplished it were in no mood to stop and study erudite signs.>>完整场景

The caution about pigs ended the sign to Augustus’s satisfaction, at least for a while, but after a year or two had passed, he decided it would add dignity to it all if the sign ended with a Latin motto. He had an old Latin schoolbook that had belonged to his father; it was thoroughly battered from having been in his saddlebags for years. It had a few pages of mottoes in the back, and Augustus spent many happy hours poring over them, trying to decide which might look best at the bottom of the sign. Unfortunately the mottoes had not been translated, perhaps because by the time the students got to the back of the book they were supposed to be able to read Latin. Augustus had had only a fleeting contact with the language and had no real opportunity to improve his knowledge; once he had been caught in an ice storm on the plains and had torn out a number of pages of the grammar in order to get a fire started. He had kept himself from freezing, but at the cost of most of the grammar and vocabulary; what was left didn’t help him much with the mottoes at the end of the book. However, it was his view that Latin was mostly for looks anyway, and he devoted himself to the mottoes in order to find one with the best look. The one he settled on was Uva uvam vivendo varia fit, which seemed to him a beautiful motto, whatever it meant. One day when nobody was around he went out and lettered it onto the bottom of the sign, just below “We Don’t Rent Pigs.” Then he felt that his handiwork was complete. The whole sign read: HAT CREEK CATTLE COMPANY AND LIVERY EMPORIUM CAPT. AUGUSTUS MCCRAE—CAPTAIN W. F. CALL (PROPS.) P. E. PARKER (WRANGLER) DEETS, JOSHUA>>完整场景

WINSTON CHURCHILL Is that be the motto of the new reign?>>完整场景

My motto is simple.>>完整场景

Who cares? That's my motto.>>完整场景

But that's not part of the motto, so you're not supposed to learn that.>>完整场景

Let's play smart. Wait for two-on-ones. Cover closely for your pick-ups. What's our motto?>>完整场景

And the rocket's red glare The bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there Now it catches the gleam Of the morning's first beam in full glory reflected Now shines in the stream And conquer we must When our cause, it is just And this be our motto in God we trust Oh, say, does that Star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free And the home Of the Brave Home of the brave I've gotten so sick and tired of listening to What you've got to say I decided I just got to stand up and say so Sick and tired of being sick and tired of Being sick and tired of being treated this way So I've made my choice, gonna raise my voice and say ''it's time for you to pack up and go'' You know who you are, you lying so-and-so And so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so I know you're lyin', 'cause your lips are moving There's no use tryin' 'Cause you've made him prove it My opinion of you it's time that you should pack up and go I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so I've gotten sick and tired of you stealing my money To pay for jet airplanes and limousines For crying out loud, you think it's funny You and Bubba living above my means At Chappaqua, living like kings and queens I've gotten so sick and tired of listening to What you've got to say I decided I just got to stand up and say so Sick and tired of being sick and tired of Being sick and tired of being treated this way So I've made my choice, gonna raise my voice and say ''it's time for you to pack up and go'' You know who you are, you lying so-and-so And so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so I'm gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so We're gonna stand up and say so So, how will you know when you have become an American?>>完整场景