I do not repine at it; nay, lying day after day in solitude and silence, I have felt glad that it was so.

我不后悔； 不，日复一日地躺在孤独和寂静中， 我很高兴能如此。

Except for making peace in Manchuria, he could do no more; and if the worst should happen, setting continent against continent in arms — the only apparent alternative to his scheme — he need not repine at missing the catastrophe.

除了在满洲实现和平，他别无他法；如果最坏的情况发生，让大陆与大陆交战——这是他的计划唯一明显的替代方案——他不必为错过这场灾难而懊悔。