Winston Churchill, today an idealized hero of history, was in his time variously considered a bombastic blunderer, an unstable politician, an intermittently inspired orator, a reckless self-dramatizer, and a warmongering drunkard.

• 译文:温斯顿.；邱吉尔今天是一个理想化的历史英雄；但当时却看成是一个爱唱高调但常犯错误的人；摇摆不定的政客；有几分才气的演说家；轻率的装腔作势者；以及贩卖战争的酒徒