Their love affair was played out against the backdrop of war.

他们在战争的背景下发生恋情。

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Even mediocre performances now may look good against the backdrop of 2008.

相比去年同期的数字，现在即使表现平平的数字看起来也是不错的。

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However, the latest bout of risk aversion has occurred against the backdrop of low volumes.

不过，最新这一轮避险行动，是在交投清淡的背景下发生的。

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The president spoke against a backdrop of negotiations on Capitol Hill on proposed health care legislation.

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Now obviously, the struggle takes place against the backdrop of completely undisciplined and unsystematic thinking which Eikhenbaum identifies as the typical thinking of the universities, of the academy.

很明显，这话时针对当时,艾肯鲍姆认为,无序混乱的,学术界而说的。

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So defamiliarization, against the backdrop of a kind of gray uniformity that Jakobson in his essay on byt "The Generation that Squandered its Poets" called "byt"-- I don't know how to pronounce that.

陌生化所针对的，灰色一致性,正如雅各布森在他的论文,浪费诗人的时代中提到的，称为-,我不知道这个词怎么发音。

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It was a remarkable sight: wild dolphins against the backdrop of shipyards and centuries-old Ottoman palaces.

NPR: Dolphins Dodge Danger in the Bosphorus Strait

It occurred against the backdrop of a massive Iraqi military build-up along the Kuwaiti border.

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In the rest of the songs, I fell in love against the backdrop of nuclear holocaust.

FORBES: Nuclear New Wave