a kind of living thing

"Once Franklin answered him like this:" a gentleman is a kind of living thing.

富兰克林一旦如此回答他：“一个绅士是一种有生命的东西。”

To indulge, one more time, in the metaphor of war as a kind of living thing, a parasite on human societies: the idea of a war to end war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.

再一次地，让我们坚决地把战争看作是一种有生命的东西，一种人类社会的寄生虫：以战止战的想法是老掉牙的把戏，但也是最残忍的把戏。

And it is the hardest thing to do when you're living with not just a racial secret, any kind of secret.

并且当你生活在种族秘密中或者其他任何秘密中时那也是最那做到的事。