The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellectual can forge.

名言的威力作为强大的武器，与人类智慧能够制造出的任何武器相比都不逊色。

Such a speech made sense politically , too: it was shrewd to emphasise just how dreadful a mess he is inheriting from his predecessor.

这样的演说在政治上也是有意义的：只强调他从前任总统继承下来的混乱局面是多么严重——这很精明。