HAD William Safire written his own obituary, he would have laid down a few simple rules.

如果让威廉•赛菲尔写自己的讣告，他会立下几条简单的规矩。

The real thing about Safire, though, was not whether his columns made sense or not.It was that the man could write.

尽管如此，对萨菲尔来说真正的事情不是他的专栏是否有意义，而是这个人可以写它。

The real thing about Safire, though, was not whether his columns made sense or not. It was that the man could write.

尽管如此，对萨菲尔来说真正的事情不是他的专栏是否有意义，而是这个人可以写它。

Mr Safire did him a large favour, in 1959, by engineering a conversation between him and Nikita Khrushchev (Nik heated, Dick cool) at a trade fair in Moscow.

1959年，在莫斯科的一个交易会上赛菲尔安排尼克松和尼基塔•赫鲁晓夫进行了一段对话，从而帮了尼克松一个大忙（因为对话中的尼克显得情绪激动，而迪克则态度冷静）。

Safire is really a blue hue of Ruby that also appears upon the surface of the earth and unites in this quad tone to create the movements of Absolute Divine Union.

蓝宝石，事实上是红宝石的蓝色调，它也出现在地球表面并在四音调中联合起来以创造绝对神圣联盟的运动。